hepatopancreatic ampulla

A dilation of the duodenal papilla that is the opening of the juncture of the common bile duct and the main pancreatic duct. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the hepatopancreatic ampulla is

A dilation of the duodenal papilla that is the opening of the juncture of the common bile duct and the main pancreatic duct. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the hepatopancreatic ampulla is

It sits within the digestive system. 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 hepatopancreatic ampulla connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of common bile duct and duodenal papilla.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the hepatopancreatic ampulla. 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 Vater's ampulla, ampulla biliaropancreatica, ampulla of Vater, ampulla of bile duct, biliaropancreatic ampulla and papilla Vateri, and 3 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0004913, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: common bile duct and duodenal papilla.
• A kind of: bile duct.
• contains: sphincter of hepatopancreatic ampulla.

Questions

Where is the hepatopancreatic ampulla?

It sits within the digestive system. 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 hepatopancreatic ampulla connect to?

Part of: common bile duct and duodenal papilla.

Is the hepatopancreatic ampulla 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.