large intestine

A subdivision of the digestive tract that connects the small intestine to the cloaca or anus. Lacks or has few villi[Kardong]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the large intestine is

A subdivision of the digestive tract that connects the small intestine to the cloaca or anus. Lacks or has few villi[Kardong]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the large intestine is

It sits within the digestive system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the large intestine connects to

The atlas records 35 typed relationships for it, across 10 kinds of connection. part of digestive system, intestine and lower digestive tract.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: median sacral artery. Venous drainage: inferior mesenteric vein. Innervation: superior mesenteric plexus.

Also called

Also recorded as intestinum crassum. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000059, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: digestive system, intestine and lower digestive tract.
• A kind of: organ and subdivision of digestive tract.
• contains: anal canal, caecum, colon, crypt of Lieberkuhn of large intestine, epithelium of large intestine and lamina propria of large intestine, and 12 more.
• contributes to morphology of: intestine, caecum, colon, crypt of Lieberkuhn of large intestine and rectum.
• flows to: colon and ileum.
• connects: ileocecal junction.
• Drained by: inferior mesenteric vein.
• Supplied by: median sacral artery.

Questions

Where is the large intestine?

It sits within the digestive system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the large intestine connect to?

Part of: digestive system, intestine and lower digestive tract.

Is the large 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.