kidney
A paired organ of the urinary tract that produces urine and maintains bodily fluid homeostasis, blood pressure, pH levels, red blood cell production and skeleton mineralization. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the kidney is
A paired organ of the urinary tract that produces urine and maintains bodily fluid homeostasis, blood pressure, pH levels, red blood cell production and skeleton mineralization. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the kidney is
It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the urinary 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 kidney connects to
The atlas records 79 typed relationships for it, across 13 kinds of connection. part of abdomen, abdominal segment of trunk and material anatomical entity, and 1 more.
Supply and innervation
Arterial supply: renal artery and segmental renal artery. Venous drainage: renal vein.
Also called
Also recorded as reniculate kidney. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002113, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: abdomen, abdominal segment of trunk, material anatomical entity and upper urinary tract.
- A kind of: anatomical structure, cavitated compound organ and trunk region element.
- Attaches to: lieno-renal ligament.
- contains: anterior inferior segmental renal artery, anterior superior segmental renal artery, anterior surface of kidney, capillary network of kidney, cortex of kidney and endothelium of peritubular capillary, and 41 more.
- contributes to morphology of: renal system, collecting duct of renal tubule, cortex of kidney, kidney capsule, kidney interstitium and nephron, and 3 more.
- subtype: adult mammalian kidney, left kidney, mesonephros, metanephros, pronephros and right kidney.
- bounding layer of: kidney capsule and posterior surface of kidney.
- Supplied by: renal artery and segmental renal artery.
Questions
Where is the kidney?
It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the urinary 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 kidney connect to?
Part of: abdomen, abdominal segment of trunk, material anatomical entity and upper urinary tract.
Is the kidney 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.