external genitalia in dogs

The external genitalia are the outer sex organs, such as the penis or vulva in mammals. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the external genitalia is

The external genitalia are the outer sex organs, such as the penis or vulva in mammals. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the external genitalia is

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

What the external genitalia connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of reproductive system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the external genitalia. 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 external genitalia, external reproductive organ and external sex organ. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0004176, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: reproductive system.
• A kind of: reproductive organ.
• subtype: external female genitalia and indifferent external genitalia.
• contains: genital labium.
• Develops from: urogenital fold.

Questions

Where is the external genitalia?

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

What does the external genitalia connect to?

Part of: reproductive system.

Is the external genitalia 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.