pancreatic duct

A duct that collects and carries secretions of the exocrine pancreas to the intestine. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the pancreatic duct is

A duct that collects and carries secretions of the exocrine pancreas to the intestine. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the pancreatic duct is

It sits in the trunk, within the digestive 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 pancreatic duct connects to

The atlas records 11 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of digestive system, exocrine pancreas and pancreas.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the pancreatic duct. 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 duct of pancreas, pancreas duct and ductus pancreaticus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0007329, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Part of: digestive system, exocrine pancreas and pancreas.
A kind of: anatomical structure and duct.
Connected to: intestine.
subtype: dorsal pancreatic duct and ventral pancreatic duct.
contains: epithelium of pancreatic duct and extrapancreatic duct.
contributes to morphology of: exocrine pancreas.

Questions

Where is the pancreatic duct?

What does the pancreatic duct connect to?

Part of: digestive system, exocrine pancreas and pancreas.

Is the pancreatic duct 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.