Spleen Diagram No Labels – Print It Blank With a Key

All 10 parts on the diagram

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In place 5

Spleen Lies between the stomach and the diaphragm.
Stomach Its back wall touches the gastric surface of the spleen.
Left kidney Touches the renal surface of the spleen.
Diaphragm The sheet of muscle the outer face of the spleen rests against.
Gastrosplenic ligament A fold of peritoneum from the stomach to the spleen.

Inner face 5

Hilum A long cleft where vessels and nerves enter and leave.
Splenic artery Brings blood to the spleen. It divides before it enters.
Splenic vein Carries blood away from the spleen.
Gastric surface The broad, hollow part that faces the stomach.
Renal surface The narrower, flatter part that faces the left kidney.

How this list was compiled: Every name checked on 2026-10-01 and kept only where two independent sources use it. (1) Gray's Anatomy (1918), The Spleen, https://www.bartleby.com/107/278.html : the relations, the gastric and renal surfaces, the hilum, the gastrosplenic ligament, the fibroelastic coat (capsule), the trabeculae and the splenic pulp. (2) Wikipedia, Spleen, White pulp, Red pulp, Trabecular arteries and Gastrosplenic ligament, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spleen (its account of the surfaces repeats Gray, so it is not counted for them). (3) TeachMeAnatomy, The Spleen, https://teachmeanatomy.info/abdomen/viscera/spleen/ : position, ligaments, hilum, splenic artery and vein. (4) US National Cancer Institute, SEER Training Modules, Spleen, https://training.seer.cancer.gov/anatomy/lymphatic/components/spleen.html : capsule, white pulp, red pulp, venous sinuses. (5) Passages found by archive.org's full-text search: Color Atlas of Histology (1985), https://archive.org/details/coloratlasofhist0000gene (capsule, trabecula, white pulp, central artery, red pulp, splenic sinusoids, trabecular vein); Histology and Cell Biology (2002), https://archive.org/details/histologycellbio0000kier (central artery, red and white pulp); Atlas of Anatomy: Neck and Internal Organs (2006), https://archive.org/details/atlasofanatomyne0000schu (gastric surface, renal surface, hilum). Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site on 2026-10-05 by script. Our own drawing, nothing traced. The three views were laid out by eye after three public domain plates in Henry Gray, Anatomy of the Human Body (20th US edition, 1918): the cross-section after fig. 1039, the peritoneum in the upper part of the abdomen (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gray1039.png), turned over so that it is seen from below; the inner face after fig. 1188, the visceral surface of the spleen (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gray1188.png), turned half round, with an idealised outline; the microscope view after fig. 1191, a section of a portion of the spleen (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gray1191.png). A plan, not to scale: small gaps are left between organs that touch in life, and the kidneys are simplified. Licence: own work

How it works

Two drawings, not a name on either. The upper one is a cut across the trunk at the level of the spleen; the lower one is the spleen alone, turned to show the face its vessels enter. The microscope view is on the spleen diagram.

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Word bank for the blank spleen labeling diagram

Cut across the trunk, five: spleen, stomach, left kidney, diaphragm, gastrosplenic ligament. Inner face, five: hilum, splenic artery, splenic vein, gastric surface, renal surface. An older book writes lienal artery, lienal vein and gastrolienal ligament, from lien, the Latin for spleen.

Where each name goes

Six parts have a line: left kidney, diaphragm, gastrosplenic ligament, hilum, splenic artery and splenic vein. Write spleen on the curved wedge against the body wall and stomach on the rounded bag in front of it. On the lower drawing a ridge runs down the face: gastric surface goes on the broad side, renal surface on the narrow one. The winding vessel is the artery.

The liver, the right kidney, the backbone and the two vessels in front of the backbone are drawn as landmarks and take no label.
Hold the cut with the backbone at the bottom: the front of the body is then at the top, its left side on your right.

Questions and answers

What does the spleen do?

It filters the blood. The spleen takes old and damaged red blood cells out of circulation, keeps a reserve of blood in its sinuses, and its lymphocytes react to pathogens that the blood carries.

Which artery supplies the spleen?

The splenic artery, a branch of the celiac trunk. It runs along the upper edge of the pancreas, is known for its winding course, and divides into several branches just before it reaches the hilum.

Where does the splenic vein drain?

Into the hepatic portal vein, which it forms by joining the superior mesenteric vein. The portal vein then carries the blood on to the liver.

What is the gastrosplenic ligament?

A double fold of peritoneum, part of the greater omentum, that runs from the greater curvature of the stomach to the hilum of the spleen. The short gastric and left gastroepiploic vessels travel inside it.