ileocecal valve

The ileocecal valve is a sphincter muscle situated at the junction of the small intestine (ileum) and the large intestine. Its critical function is to limit the reflux of colonic contents into the ileum. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the ileocecal valve is

The ileocecal valve is a sphincter muscle situated at the junction of the small intestine (ileum) and the large intestine. Its critical function is to limit the reflux of colonic contents into the ileum. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the ileocecal valve is

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

What the ileocecal valve connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. part of alimentary part of gastrointestinal system, digestive system and ileocecal junction.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the ileocecal valve. 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 valva ileocaecalis (valva ilealis), Tulp's valve and valva ileocaecalis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000569, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: alimentary part of gastrointestinal system, digestive system and ileocecal junction.
• A kind of: organ, sphincter muscle and valve.

Questions

Where is the ileocecal valve?

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

What does the ileocecal valve connect to?

Part of: alimentary part of gastrointestinal system, digestive system and ileocecal junction.

Is the ileocecal valve 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.