respiratory tract

Anatomical structure that is part of the respiratory system. In mammals consists of upper and lower tracts. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the respiratory tract is

Anatomical structure that is part of the respiratory system. In mammals consists of upper and lower tracts. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the respiratory tract is

It sits within the respiratory system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the respiratory tract connects to

The atlas records 17 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of respiratory system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the respiratory tract. 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.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000065, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: respiratory system.
• A kind of: anatomical conduit and compound organ.
• contains: alveolar sac, bronchus submucosal gland, epithelium of bronchiole, epithelium of bronchus, epithelium of lobar bronchus and epithelium of nasopharynx, and 8 more.

Questions

Where is the respiratory tract?

It sits within the respiratory system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the respiratory tract connect to?

Part of: respiratory system.

Is the respiratory tract 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.