pulmonary vein

Pulmonary veins are blood vessels that transport blood from the lungs to the heart[GO]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the pulmonary vein is

Pulmonary veins are blood vessels that transport blood from the lungs to the heart[GO]. The atlas records it as a vein at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the pulmonary vein is

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the pulmonary vein connects to

The atlas records 16 typed relationships for it, across 9 kinds of connection. part of pulmonary vascular system.

Supply and innervation

Venous drainage: segmental pulmonary vein.

Also called

Also recorded as pulmonary venous tree organ part and venae pulmonales. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002016, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: pulmonary vascular system.
• A kind of: blood vessel and vein.
• Connected to: left cardiac atrium.
• Drains: lung.
• subtype: intersegmental pulmonary vein, left inferior pulmonary vein, left superior pulmonary vein, right inferior pulmonary vein and right superior pulmonary vein.
• flows to: left cardiac atrium, left lung and right lung.
• Develops from: truncus arteriosus.
• overlaps: pulmonary interlobular septum.

Questions

Where is the pulmonary vein?

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the pulmonary vein connect to?

Part of: pulmonary vascular system.

Is the pulmonary vein 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.