renal vein
Either of the pair of major vessels which arise from the renal hilus and return blood from the kidneys, suprarenal gland and the ureter to the inferior vena cava. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the renal vein is
Either of the pair of major vessels which arise from the renal hilus and return blood from the kidneys, suprarenal gland and the ureter to the inferior vena cava. The atlas records it as a vein at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the renal vein is
It sits within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the renal vein connects to
The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. a kind of vein.
Supply and innervation
Venous drainage: inferior vena cava.
Also called
Also recorded as kidney vein, renal venous tree, vein of kidney and venae renales. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001140, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- A kind of: vein.
- Connected to: interlobar vein.
- Drains: kidney.
- subtype: left renal vein and right renal vein.
- drains to: inferior vena cava.
Questions
Where is the renal vein?
It sits within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the renal vein connect to?
A kind of: vein.
Is the renal 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.