uterus
The female muscular organ of gestation in which the developing embryo or fetus is nourished until birth. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the uterus is
The female muscular organ of gestation in which the developing embryo or fetus is nourished until birth. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the uterus is
It sits within the reproductive system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the uterus connects to
The atlas records 30 typed relationships for it, across 10 kinds of connection. part of internal genitalia.
Supply and innervation
Arterial supply: uterine artery. Venous drainage: uterine vein.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000995, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: internal genitalia.
- A kind of: subdivision of oviduct.
- Attaches to: ovarian ligament.
- contains: adnexa of uterus, basal layer of endometrium, body of uterus, cervix epithelium, endometrium and endometrium glandular epithelium, and 10 more.
- contributes to morphology of: endometrium, myometrium, uterine artery, uterine cervix and uterine horn.
- Develops from: embryo and embryonic uterus.
- connects: fallopian tube.
- develops into: placenta.
Questions
Where is the uterus?
It sits within the reproductive system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the uterus connect to?
Part of: internal genitalia.
Is the uterus 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.