left lung
Lung which consists of the left upper lobe and left lower lobe.[FMA]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the left lung is
Lung which consists of the left upper lobe and left lower lobe.[FMA]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the left lung is
It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the respiratory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the left lung connects to
The atlas records 13 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. a kind of lung.
Supply and innervation
Arterial supply: left pulmonary artery and pulmonary artery.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002168, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- A kind of: lung.
- contains: left lung hilus, lobar bronchus of left lung lower lobe, lobar bronchus of left lung upper lobe, lower lobe of left lung and upper lobe of left lung.
- Supplied by: left pulmonary artery and pulmonary artery.
- left of: pair of lungs.
- paired with: right lung.
- flows to: pulmonary vein.
- participates in: Pulmonary circulation.
- functionally connected to: diaphragm.
Questions
Where is the left lung?
It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the respiratory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the left lung connect to?
A kind of: lung.
Is the left lung 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.