renal vein

Definition

Either of the pair of major vessels which arise from the renal hilus and return blood from the kidneys, suprarenal gland and the ureter to the inferior vena cava.

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

Arterial supply

renal artery

Venous drainage

inferior vena cava

Sub-structures

• left renal vein
• right renal vein

Neighbouring structures

• common iliac vein
• dorsal venous arch of foot
• external iliac vein
• hepatic vein
• internal iliac vein
• lumbar vein
• plantar venous arch of foot
• subdivision of external iliac vein
• suprarenal vein
• testicular vein
• tributary of hepatic vein
• tributary of internal iliac vein

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Identifiers

TA98

A12.3.09.009

FMA

14334

UBERON

0001140

Wikidata

Q132318