venule

One of the minute vessels that collect deoxygenated blood from the capillary plexuses returns it to the veins. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the venule is

One of the minute vessels that collect deoxygenated blood from the capillary plexuses returns it to the veins. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the venule is

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

What the venule connects to

The atlas records 14 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of vasculature.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the venule. 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 venula. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001979, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: vasculature.
• A kind of: anatomical system, blood vessel, venous blood vessel and vessel.
• subtype: bronchial venule, hepatic portal venule, intra-acinar venule, postcapillary venule, prostatic venule and venule of lymph node.
• connects: capillary and vein.
• contains: endothelium of venule.

Questions

Where is the venule?

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

What does the venule connect to?

Part of: vasculature.

Is the venule 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.