fundus of stomach

The fundus is the portion of the stomach that lies above the cardiac notch, and contains the fundic glands[GO, Kardong]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the fundus of stomach is

The fundus is the portion of the stomach that lies above the cardiac notch, and contains the fundic glands[GO, Kardong]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the fundus of stomach is

It sits within the digestive system. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.

What the fundus of stomach connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of zone of stomach.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: short gastric artery.

Also called

Also recorded as fundus gastricus (ventricularis), gastric fundus, stomach fundus, fundus gastricus, fundus gastricus ventricularis and fundus ventricularis, 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:0001160, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: zone of stomach.
• contains: mucosa of fundus of stomach, muscularis mucosae of fundus of stomach, serosa of fundus of stomach, stomach fundus epithelium, stomach fundus lumen and submucosa of fundus of stomach.
• contributes to morphology of: stomach.
• Supplied by: short gastric artery.

Questions

Where is the fundus of stomach?

It sits within the digestive system. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.

What does the fundus of stomach connect to?

A kind of: zone of stomach.

Is the fundus of stomach 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.