intralobular bile duct

The tubules located between the bile canaliculi and interlobular bile ducts near the outer edge of a classic liver lobule. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the intralobular bile duct is

The tubules located between the bile canaliculi and interlobular bile ducts near the outer edge of a classic liver lobule. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the intralobular bile duct is

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the digestive and endocrine systems. 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 intralobular bile duct connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of hepatic acinus, liver lobule and biliary tree.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the intralobular bile 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.

Also called

Also recorded as canal of Herring, cholangiole, ductus interlobularis bilifer, canal of Hering, canals of Hering and duct of Herring, and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001282, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: hepatic acinus, liver lobule and biliary tree.
• A kind of: interlobular duct and intrahepatic bile duct.
• contributes to morphology of: liver lobule.

Questions

Where is the intralobular bile duct?

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the digestive and endocrine systems. 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 intralobular bile duct connect to?

Part of: hepatic acinus, liver lobule and biliary tree.

Is the intralobular bile 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.