liver lobule

The polygonal structure of the liver that consists of hepatocytes radiating outward from a hepatic vein. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the liver lobule is

The polygonal structure of the liver that consists of hepatocytes radiating outward from a hepatic vein. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the liver lobule 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 liver lobule connects to

The atlas records 17 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of liver parenchyma and liver.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: hepatic portal venule.

Also called

Also recorded as hepatic lobule, lobuli hepatici, lobulus hepaticus, lobules of liver and lobuli hepatis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0004647, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Part of: liver parenchyma and liver.
A kind of: organ part.
Adjacent to: interlobular stroma of liver.
contains: bile canaliculus, central vein of liver, hepatic portal venule, hepatic sinusoid, intralobular bile duct and liver perisinusoidal space.
contributes to morphology of: liver parenchyma, bile canaliculus, hepatic sinusoid, intralobular bile duct and liver perisinusoidal space.
overlaps: hepatic acinus.
Supplied by: hepatic portal venule.

Questions

Where is the liver lobule?

What does the liver lobule connect to?

Part of: liver parenchyma and liver.

Is the liver lobule 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.