hepatic duct

Any portion of the ducts that carry bile from the liver to the common bile duct. This may include both intrahapetic components (parts of left and right hepatic ducts) and extrahapetic components (common hepatic duct, plus hilar portion). Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the hepatic duct is

Any portion of the ducts that carry bile from the liver to the common bile duct. This may include both intrahapetic components (parts of left and right hepatic ducts) and extrahapetic components (common hepatic duct, plus hilar portion). The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the hepatic duct is

It sits within the digestive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the hepatic duct connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of biliary tree.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the hepatic duct. 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.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0005171, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: biliary tree.
• A kind of: bile duct.
• contains: common hepatic duct, left hepatic duct and right hepatic duct.
• connects: common bile duct and liver.

Questions

Where is the hepatic duct?

It sits within the digestive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the hepatic duct connect to?

Part of: biliary tree.

Is the hepatic duct 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.