right lung
Lung which consists of the right upper lobe, middle lobe and right lower lobe.[FMA]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the right lung is
Lung which consists of the right upper lobe, middle lobe and right lower lobe.[FMA]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the right lung is
It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the respiratory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the right lung connects to
The atlas records 16 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. a kind of lung.
Supply and innervation
Arterial supply: right pulmonary artery and pulmonary artery.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002167, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- A kind of: lung.
- contains: lobar bronchus of right lung cranial lobe, lobar bronchus of right lung middle lobe, lower lobe of right lung, middle lobe of right lung, right lung hilus and upper lobe of right lung.
- contributes to morphology of: lower lobe of right lung, middle lobe of right lung and upper lobe of right lung.
- Supplied by: right pulmonary artery and pulmonary artery.
- right of: pair of lungs.
- flows to: pulmonary vein.
- participates in: Pulmonary circulation.
- paired with: left lung.
Questions
Where is the right lung?
It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the respiratory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the right lung connect to?
A kind of: lung.
Is the right lung 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.