femoral vein

In the human body, the femoral vein is a blood vessel that accompanies the femoral artery in the femoral sheath. It begins at the adductor canal (also known as Hunter's canal) and is a continuation of the popliteal vein. It ends at the inferior margin of the inguinal ligament, where it becomes the external iliac vein. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the femoral vein is

In the human body, the femoral vein is a blood vessel that accompanies the femoral artery in the femoral sheath. It begins at the adductor canal (also known as Hunter's canal) and is a continuation of the popliteal vein. It ends at the inferior margin of the inguinal ligament, where it becomes the external iliac vein. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a vein at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the femoral vein is

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

What the femoral vein connects to

The atlas records 14 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of hindlimb, limb and organism subdivision, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

Venous drainage: anterior tibial vein, great saphenous vein, lateral femoral circumflex vein, medial circumflex femoral vein, popliteal vein and posterior tibial vein.

Also called

Also recorded as vena femoralis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001361, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: hindlimb, limb, organism subdivision and vasculature.
• A kind of: blood vessel and vein.
• Connected to: external iliac vein and external pudendal vein.
• drains to: anterior tibial vein, great saphenous vein, lateral femoral circumflex vein, medial circumflex femoral vein, popliteal vein and posterior tibial vein.

Questions

Where is the femoral vein?

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

What does the femoral vein connect to?

Part of: hindlimb, limb, organism subdivision and vasculature.

Is the femoral vein 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.