epicardium

A region of the serous membrane that forms the innermost layer of the pericardium and the outer surface of the heart. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the epicardium is

A region of the serous membrane that forms the innermost layer of the pericardium and the outer surface of the heart. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the human body.

Where the epicardium is

It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the epicardium connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of heart and visceral serous pericardium.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the epicardium. 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 heart epicardium, visceral serous pericardium of heart, visceral serous pericardium proper and pericardium visceral mesothelium. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002348, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the epicardium?

It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the epicardium connect to?

Part of: heart and visceral serous pericardium.

Is the epicardium 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.