common iliac vein

A vein that drains the pelvis and lower limbs into the inferior vena cava. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the common iliac vein is

A vein that drains the pelvis and lower limbs into the inferior vena cava. The atlas records it as a vein at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the common iliac vein is

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the common iliac vein connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of inferior vena cava and material anatomical entity.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the common iliac vein. 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 common iliac venous tree and vena iliaca communis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001139, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: inferior vena cava and material anatomical entity.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and vein.
• Connected to: external iliac vein, iliolumbar vein, internal iliac vein and median sacral vein.
• Drains: pectoral complex.

Questions

Where is the common iliac vein?

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the common iliac vein connect to?

Part of: inferior vena cava and material anatomical entity.

Is the common iliac vein 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.