uterine cervix
Lower, narrow portion of the uterus where it joins with the top end of the vagina. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the uterine cervix is
Lower, narrow portion of the uterus where it joins with the top end of the vagina. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the uterine cervix is
It sits within the reproductive system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the uterine cervix connects to
The atlas records 21 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of reproductive system and uterus.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the uterine cervix. 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 cervix, canalis cervicis uteri, caudal segment of uterus, cervical canal of uterus, cervix uteri and neck of uterus, and 3 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000002, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: reproductive system and uterus.
- A kind of: anatomical structure and neck of organ.
- contains: cervical cavity, cervical gland, cervical mucosa, cervical os, cervical squamo-columnar junction and cervix epithelium, and 5 more.
- contributes to morphology of: uterus and cervix epithelium.
- Continuous with: vagina.
- produces: cervical mucus.
- deep to: ectocervix.
- connects: external cervical os.
Questions
Where is the uterine cervix?
It sits within the reproductive system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the uterine cervix connect to?
Part of: reproductive system and uterus.
Is the uterine cervix 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.