endocrine system in dogs

Anatomical system that consists of the glands and parts of glands that produce endocrine secretions and help to integrate and control bodily metabolic activity. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the endocrine system is

Anatomical system that consists of the glands and parts of glands that produce endocrine secretions and help to integrate and control bodily metabolic activity. The atlas records it as a region at the system scale in the dog.

Where the endocrine system is

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

What the endocrine system connects to

The atlas records 19 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of anatomical entity.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the endocrine system. 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 endocrine glandular system, endocrine system and systema endocrinum. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000949, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the endocrine system?

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

What does the endocrine system connect to?

A kind of: anatomical entity.

Is the endocrine system 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.