digestive tract
A tube extending from the mouth to the anus. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the digestive tract is
A tube extending from the mouth to the anus. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the digestive tract is
It sits within the digestive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What the digestive tract connects to
The atlas records 64 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of digestive system.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the digestive tract. 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 gut, digestive tube, enteric tract, alimentary canal, alimentary tract and digestive canal, and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001555, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: digestive system.
- A kind of: anatomical conduit.
- contains: anus, buccopharyngeal membrane, caecum, cloacal membrane, duodenal gland and entire pharyngeal arch endoderm, and 47 more.
- develops into: foramen cecum of tongue, maxillary artery, premaxilla, tongue and upper lip.
- connects: mouth.
- Develops from: embryo.
- deep to: anus.
- produces: gas excreted from digestive tract.
Questions
Where is the digestive tract?
It sits within the digestive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What does the digestive tract connect to?
Part of: digestive system.
Is the digestive tract 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.