hepatic biliary tree

Definition

Any portion of the ducts that carry bile from the liver to the common bile duct. This may include both intrahapetic components (parts of left and right hepatic ducts) and extrahapetic components (common hepatic duct, plus hilar portion).

Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0

Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Sub-structures

• common hepatic duct

Neighbouring structures

• common bile duct
• dorsal pancreatic duct
• hepatopancreatic ampulla
• ventral pancreatic duct
• cystic duct

Identifiers

FMA

71891

UBERON

0005171

Wikidata

Q66569582