digestive system

Anatomical system that has as its parts the organs devoted to the ingestion, digestion, and assimilation of food and the discharge of residual wastes. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the digestive system is

Anatomical system that has as its parts the organs devoted to the ingestion, digestion, and assimilation of food and the discharge of residual wastes. The atlas records it as a system at the system scale in the human body.

Where the digestive system is

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

What the digestive system connects to

The atlas records 83 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of anatomical system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the digestive system. 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 alimentary system, alimentary tract, gastrointestinal system and gut. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001007, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: anatomical system.
• contains: alimentary part of gastrointestinal system, bile duct, biliary system, biliary tree, capsule of temporomandibular joint and cavity of pharynx, and 65 more.
• develops into: common hepatic duct, foramen cecum of tongue, maxillary artery, premaxilla, tongue and upper lip.
• contributes to morphology of: intestine, mouth mucosa, saliva-secreting gland, stomach and tongue.

Questions

Where is the digestive system?

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

What does the digestive system connect to?

A kind of: anatomical system.

Is the digestive system 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.