head of pancreas

The head of pancreas is a portion of the pancreas that is lodged within the curve of the duodenum, and is flattened anteriorly (from before). The other parts of the pancreas are the body and the tail. Its upper border is overlapped by the superior part of the duodenum and its lower overlaps the horizontal part; its right and left borders overlap in front, and insinuate themselves behind, the descending and ascending parts of the duodenum respectively. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the head of pancreas is

The head of pancreas is a portion of the pancreas that is lodged within the curve of the duodenum, and is flattened anteriorly (from before). The other parts of the pancreas are the body and the tail. Its upper border is overlapped by the superior part of the duodenum and its lower overlaps the horizontal part; its right and left borders overlap in front, and insinuate themselves behind, the descending and ascending parts of the duodenum respectively. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the head of pancreas is

It sits in the trunk. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the head of pancreas connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of pancreas.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the head of pancreas. 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 pancreas head, pancreatic head, right extremity of pancreas and caput pancreatis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001069, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: pancreas.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and organ part.
• contains: uncinate process of pancreas.

Questions

Where is the head of pancreas?

It sits in the trunk. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the head of pancreas connect to?

Part of: pancreas.

Is the head of pancreas 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.