spleen central arteriole

A blood vessel surrounded by the periarteriolar lymphoid sheath that connects the trabecular artery to the trabecular vein. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the spleen central arteriole is

A blood vessel surrounded by the periarteriolar lymphoid sheath that connects the trabecular artery to the trabecular vein. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the spleen central arteriole is

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the cardiovascular and lymphatic & immune systems. 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 spleen central arteriole connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of abdomen, abdominal segment of trunk and spleen, and 2 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the spleen central arteriole. 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 central arteriole, splenic arteriole, follicular arteriole and splenic central arteriole. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0010401, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: abdomen, abdominal segment of trunk, spleen, trunk and white pulp of spleen.
• A kind of: arteriole and blood vessel.
• Connected to: spleen trabecular vein.
• contributes to morphology of: white pulp of spleen.

Questions

Where is the spleen central arteriole?

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the cardiovascular and lymphatic & immune systems. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the spleen central arteriole connect to?

Part of: abdomen, abdominal segment of trunk, spleen, trunk and white pulp of spleen.

Is the spleen central arteriole 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.