external iliac artery

The external iliac artery is a large artery in the pelvic region that carries blood to the lower limb. The external iliac artery is a paired artery, meaning there is one on each side of the body: a right external iliac artery and left external iliac artery. The external iliac artery is accompanied by the external iliac vein, which is located posterior to the artery. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the external iliac artery is

The external iliac artery is a large artery in the pelvic region that carries blood to the lower limb. The external iliac artery is a paired artery, meaning there is one on each side of the body: a right external iliac artery and left external iliac artery. The external iliac artery is accompanied by the external iliac vein, which is located posterior to the artery. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a artery at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the external iliac artery is

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

What the external iliac artery connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of common iliac artery and pelvic complex.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the external iliac artery. 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 arteria iliaca externa. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001308, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: common iliac artery and pelvic complex.
• A kind of: systemic artery.
• contains: deep circumflex iliac artery, deep external pudendal artery, superficial epigastric artery and superficial external pudendal artery.

Questions

Where is the external iliac artery?

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

What does the external iliac artery connect to?

Part of: common iliac artery and pelvic complex.

Is the external iliac artery 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.