ventral pancreatic duct

A duct joining the pancreas to the common bile duct to supply pancreatic juices which aid in digestion provided by the exocrine pancreas. The pancreatic duct joins the common bile duct just prior to the ampulla of Vater, after which both ducts perforate the medial side of the second portion of the duodenum at the major duodenal papilla. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the ventral pancreatic duct is

A duct joining the pancreas to the common bile duct to supply pancreatic juices which aid in digestion provided by the exocrine pancreas. The pancreatic duct joins the common bile duct just prior to the ampulla of Vater, after which both ducts perforate the medial side of the second portion of the duodenum at the major duodenal papilla. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the ventral pancreatic duct is

It sits in the trunk, within the digestive system. 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 ventral pancreatic duct connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of exocrine pancreas.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the ventral pancreatic duct. 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 pancreatic duct, chief pancreatic duct, duct of Wirsung, main pancreatic duct, canal of Wirsung and ductus pancreatis ventralis, and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001064, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: exocrine pancreas.
• A kind of: anatomical conduit and pancreatic duct.
• Continuous with: common bile duct.

Questions

Where is the ventral pancreatic duct?

It sits in the trunk, within the digestive system. 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 ventral pancreatic duct connect to?

Part of: exocrine pancreas.

Is the ventral pancreatic duct 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.