central vein of liver

Vein that is central to a lobule in the liver. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the central vein of liver is

Vein that is central to a lobule in the liver. The atlas records it as a vein at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the central vein of liver is

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the cardiovascular, digestive and endocrine systems. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the central vein of liver connects to

The atlas records 8 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of abdomen, abdominal segment of trunk and liver, and 2 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the central vein of liver. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as central vein, terminal branch of hepatic vein, terminal hepatic venule and vena centralis (hepar). Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0006841, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Part of: abdomen, abdominal segment of trunk, liver, liver lobule and trunk.
A kind of: blood vessel and vein.
Connected to: hepatic sinusoid.

Questions

Where is the central vein of liver?

What does the central vein of liver connect to?

Part of: abdomen, abdominal segment of trunk, liver, liver lobule and trunk.

Is the central vein of liver the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.