intestine

Segment of the alimentary canal extending from the stomach to the anus and, in humans and other mammals, consists of two segments, the small intestine and the large intestine. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the intestine is

Segment of the alimentary canal extending from the stomach to the anus and, in humans and other mammals, consists of two segments, the small intestine and the large intestine. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the intestine is

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

What the intestine connects to

The atlas records 29 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of alimentary part of gastrointestinal system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the intestine. 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 bowel and intestinal tract. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000160, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: alimentary part of gastrointestinal system.
• A kind of: subdivision of digestive tract.
• Connected to: pancreatic duct.
• contains: duodeno-jejunal junction, ileocecal junction, intestinal epithelium, intestinal mucosa, intestinal submucosa and large intestine, and 15 more.
• contributes to morphology of: digestive system, intestinal epithelium, large intestine and small intestine.
• produces: intestine secretion.

Questions

Where is the intestine?

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

What does the intestine connect to?

Part of: alimentary part of gastrointestinal system.

Is the intestine 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.