lung

Respiration organ that develops as an outpocketing of the esophagus. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the lung is

Respiration organ that develops as an outpocketing of the esophagus. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the lung is

It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the respiratory 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 lung connects to

The atlas records 53 typed relationships for it, across 9 kinds of connection. part of material anatomical entity, pair of lungs and thoracic segment of trunk.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: bronchial artery and pulmonary artery. Venous drainage: pulmonary vein.

Also called

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

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002048, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Part of: material anatomical entity, pair of lungs and thoracic segment of trunk.
A kind of: anatomical structure, respiration organ, trunk region element and viscus.
Adjacent to: visceral pleura.
contains: bronchus, alveolar sac, alveolus of lung, bronchial venule, bronchiole and epithelium of bronchiole, and 30 more.
contributes to morphology of: respiratory system, lobe of lung and lung connective tissue.
Supplied by: bronchial artery and pulmonary artery.
subtype: left lung and right lung.
located in: thoracic cavity.

Questions

Where is the lung?

What does the lung connect to?

Part of: material anatomical entity, pair of lungs and thoracic segment of trunk.

Is the 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.