pulmonary vein

Venae pulmonales

Cardiovascular

Definition

Pulmonary veins are blood vessels that transport blood from the lungs to the heart[GO].

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/).

Relations

Venous drainage
left atrium

Sub-structures

Neighbouring structures

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Identifiers

TA2
4107
TA98
A12.3.02.001
FMA
66643
UBERON
0002016
Wikidata
Q535352