ureter
Muscular duct that propels urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder, or related organs. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the ureter is
Muscular duct that propels urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder, or related organs. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the ureter is
It sits in the pelvis and trunk, within the urinary system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the ureter connects to
The atlas records 33 typed relationships for it, across 10 kinds of connection. part of material anatomical entity, pelvic region of trunk and renal pelvis/ureter, and 2 more.
Supply and innervation
Arterial supply: superior vesical artery and ureteric segment of renal artery. Venous drainage: superior vesical vein.
Also called
Also recorded as metanephric duct. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000056, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: material anatomical entity, pelvic region of trunk, renal pelvis/ureter, renal system and upper urinary tract.
- A kind of: anatomical conduit, anatomical structure and pelvic region element.
- contains: adventitia of ureter, distal ureter, intramural ureter, lamina propria of ureter, mucosa of ureter and muscular coat of ureter, and 4 more.
- flows to: urinary bladder, left kidney, right kidney and renal pelvis.
- contributes to morphology of: renal pelvis, ureter smooth muscle and urothelium of ureter.
- subtype: left ureter and right ureter.
- Supplied by: superior vesical artery and ureteric segment of renal artery.
- connects: ureteropelvic junction and ureterovesical junction.
Questions
Where is the ureter?
It sits in the pelvis and trunk, within the urinary system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the ureter connect to?
Part of: material anatomical entity, pelvic region of trunk, renal pelvis/ureter, renal system and upper urinary tract.
Is the ureter 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.