crypt of Lieberkuhn in dogs

The tubular intestinal glands found in the mucosal membranes. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the crypt of Lieberkuhn is

The tubular intestinal glands found in the mucosal membranes. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the crypt of Lieberkuhn is

It sits within the digestive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the crypt of Lieberkuhn connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of intestinal mucosa.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the crypt of Lieberkuhn. 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 intestinal gland, Lieberkuhn crypt, Lieberkuhn gland, Lieberkuhn's gland, Lieberkuhn's glands and Lieberkühn crypt, and 7 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001983, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: intestinal mucosa.
• A kind of: intestinal gland.
• subtype: crypt of Lieberkuhn of large intestine and crypt of Lieberkuhn of small intestine.
• contributes to morphology of: intestinal mucosa.

Questions

Where is the crypt of Lieberkuhn?

It sits within the digestive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the crypt of Lieberkuhn connect to?

Part of: intestinal mucosa.

Is the crypt of Lieberkuhn the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.