cystic duct

The tubular structure that conducts gall bladder contents from the gall bladder to the common bile duct. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the cystic duct is

The tubular structure that conducts gall bladder contents from the gall bladder to the common bile duct. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the cystic duct is

It sits within the digestive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the cystic duct connects to

The atlas records 8 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of biliary tree.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: cystic artery.

Also called

Also recorded as ductus cysticus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001152, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: biliary tree.
• A kind of: extrahepatic bile duct.
• contains: mucosa of cystic duct, spiral valve of cystic duct and submucosa of cystic duct.
• Continuous with: common bile duct and gallbladder.
• Supplied by: cystic artery.

Questions

Where is the cystic duct?

It sits within the digestive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the cystic duct connect to?

Part of: biliary tree.

Is the cystic duct 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.