visceral peritoneum

The inner layer of peritoneum that is wrapped around organs located inside the intraperitoneal space. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the visceral peritoneum is

The inner layer of peritoneum that is wrapped around organs located inside the intraperitoneal space. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the human body.

Where the visceral peritoneum is

It sits in the abdomen and trunk. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the visceral peritoneum connects to

The atlas records 8 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of peritoneum.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the visceral peritoneum. 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 visceral serous membrane of peritoneum. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001178, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: peritoneum.
• A kind of: visceral serous membrane.
• Adjacent to: peritoneal cavity.
• contains: coronary ligament of liver, greater omentum, lesser omentum, omentum and peritoneal mesentery.

Questions

Where is the visceral peritoneum?

It sits in the abdomen and trunk. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the visceral peritoneum connect to?

Part of: peritoneum.

Is the visceral peritoneum 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.