umbilical artery

The umbilical artery is a paired artery (with one for each half of the body) that is found in the abdominal and pelvic regions. In the fetus, it extends into the umbilical cord. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the umbilical artery is

The umbilical artery is a paired artery (with one for each half of the body) that is found in the abdominal and pelvic regions. In the fetus, it extends into the umbilical cord. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a artery at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the umbilical artery is

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

What the umbilical artery connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. a kind of artery and blood vessel.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the umbilical artery. 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 a. umbilicalis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001310, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the umbilical artery?

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

What does the umbilical artery connect to?

A kind of: artery and blood vessel.

Is the umbilical artery 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.