hepatic vein

Vein that carries blood away from the liver[ZFA]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the hepatic vein is

Vein that carries blood away from the liver[ZFA]. The atlas records it as a vein at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the hepatic vein is

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the cardiovascular, digestive and endocrine systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the hepatic vein connects to

The atlas records 12 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of abdomen, abdominal segment of trunk and liver, and 2 more.

Supply and innervation

Venous drainage: inferior vena cava.

Also called

Also recorded as liver vein, vein of liver, vena hepatica, hepatic veins and venae hepaticae. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001143, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: abdomen, abdominal segment of trunk, liver, trunk and vasculature of liver.
• A kind of: blood vessel and vein.
• Drains: liver.
• subtype: left hepatic vein, middle hepatic vein and right hepatic vein.
• drains to: inferior vena cava.

Questions

Where is the hepatic vein?

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the cardiovascular, digestive and endocrine systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the hepatic vein connect to?

Part of: abdomen, abdominal segment of trunk, liver, trunk and vasculature of liver.

Is the hepatic 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.