gland in dogs

An organ that functions as a secretory or excretory organ. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the gland is

An organ that functions as a secretory or excretory organ. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the gland is

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What the gland connects to

The atlas records 29 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of organ.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the gland. 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 glandular organ, Druese and glandula. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002530, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: organ.
• subtype: endocrine gland, exocrine gland, eye gland, eye skin gland, gland of digestive tract and gland of integumental system, and 17 more.
• contains: acinus of parotid gland, hepatic acinus, pancreatic acinus and tarsal gland acinus.
• produces: organism substance.

Questions

Where is the gland?

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What does the gland connect to?

A kind of: organ.

Is the gland 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.