lymph vasculature

A network of blunt ended vessels lacking direct connection to the blood vascular system. These vessels collect and drain fluids and macromolecules from interstitial spaces throughout the animal. They derive from a subpopulation of endothelial cells and have walls that are much thinner than the blood carrying vessels. Lymphatic vessels are usually classified as either superficial or deep. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the lymph vasculature is

A network of blunt ended vessels lacking direct connection to the blood vascular system. These vessels collect and drain fluids and macromolecules from interstitial spaces throughout the animal. They derive from a subpopulation of endothelial cells and have walls that are much thinner than the blood carrying vessels. Lymphatic vessels are usually classified as either superficial or deep. The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the human body.

Where the lymph vasculature is

It sits within the cardiovascular and lymphatic & immune systems. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the lymph vasculature connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of lymphatic part of lymphoid system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the lymph vasculature. 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 lymphatic trunks and ducts, lymphatic vasculature, lymphatic vessel network, lymphatic vessels set, set of lymphatic vessels and trunci et ductus lymphatici, and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0004536, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: lymphatic part of lymphoid system.
• A kind of: vasculature.
• contains: lymph, lymphatic capillary and lymphatic vessel.
• subtype: cranial lymph vasculature.

Questions

Where is the lymph vasculature?

It sits within the cardiovascular and lymphatic & immune systems. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the lymph vasculature connect to?

Part of: lymphatic part of lymphoid system.

Is the lymph vasculature 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.