left lobe of liver

The left lobe is smaller and more flattened than the right. It is situated in the epigastric and left hypochondriac regions. Its upper surface is slightly convex and is moulded on to the diaphragm; its under surface presents the gastric impression and omental tuberosity. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the left lobe of liver is

The left lobe is smaller and more flattened than the right. It is situated in the epigastric and left hypochondriac regions. Its upper surface is slightly convex and is moulded on to the diaphragm; its under surface presents the gastric impression and omental tuberosity. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the left lobe of liver is

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the digestive and endocrine systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the left lobe of liver connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. a kind of lobe of liver.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the left lobe of liver. 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 left liver lobe, liver left lobe, lobus hepaticus sinister, left hepatic lobe and lobus hepatis sinister. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001115, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: lobe of liver.
• contains: caudate lobe of liver, left hepatic artery, left hepatic vein and liver left lobe parenchyma.
• subtype: liver left lateral lobe and liver left medial lobe.
• paired with: right lobe of liver.
• Continuous with: left hepatic duct.

Questions

Where is the left lobe of liver?

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the digestive and endocrine systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the left lobe of liver connect to?

A kind of: lobe of liver.

Is the left lobe of liver 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.