collecting duct of renal tubule

The collecting duct is a portion of the nephron through which water flows, moving passively down its concentration gradient. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the collecting duct of renal tubule is

The collecting duct is a portion of the nephron through which water flows, moving passively down its concentration gradient. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the collecting duct of renal tubule is

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the urinary system. 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 collecting duct of renal tubule connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of nephron, renal collecting system and renal system, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the collecting duct of renal tubule. 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 collecting duct, kidney collecting duct, renal collecting tubule, tubulus renalis arcuatus, tubulus renalis colligens and arcuate renal tubule, and 5 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001232, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: nephron, renal collecting system, renal system and uriniferous tubule.
• A kind of: anatomical conduit.
• subtype: inner medullary collecting duct and outer medullary collecting duct.
• contributes to morphology of: kidney.
• contains: cortical collecting duct.

Questions

Where is the collecting duct of renal tubule?

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

What does the collecting duct of renal tubule connect to?

Part of: nephron, renal collecting system, renal system and uriniferous tubule.

Is the collecting duct of renal tubule 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.