heart left ventricle
A cardiac ventricle that is in the left side of the heart. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the heart left ventricle is
A cardiac ventricle that is in the left side of the heart. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the heart left ventricle is
It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the heart left ventricle connects to
The atlas records 25 typed relationships for it, across 11 kinds of connection. a kind of cardiac ventricle and left cardiac chamber.
Supply and innervation
Arterial supply: posterolateral artery. Venous drainage: left marginal vein.
Also called
Also recorded as cardiac left ventricle, left cardiac ventricle, left ventricle, left ventricle of heart and ventriculus sinister cordis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002084, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- A kind of: cardiac ventricle and left cardiac chamber.
- Connected to: blood vasculature and aorta.
- Adjacent to: atrioventricular septum and interventricular septum.
- contains: apical region of left ventricle, cardiac muscle of left ventricle, cardiac muscle tissue of trabecula carnea of left ventricle, cavity of left ventricle, chorda tendinea of left ventricle and endocardium of left ventricle, and 6 more.
- Continuous with: aorta.
- left of: heart.
- pumps to: aorta.
- Drained by: left marginal vein.
Questions
Where is the heart left ventricle?
It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the heart left ventricle connect to?
A kind of: cardiac ventricle and left cardiac chamber.
Is the heart left ventricle 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.