lymph node in dogs
Any of the rounded masses of lymphoid tissue that are surrounded by a capsule of connective tissue, are distributed along the lymphatic vessels, and contain numerous lymphocytes which filter the flow of lymph. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the lymph node is
Any of the rounded masses of lymphoid tissue that are surrounded by a capsule of connective tissue, are distributed along the lymphatic vessels, and contain numerous lymphocytes which filter the flow of lymph. The atlas records it as a lymphatic at the organ scale in the dog.
Where the lymph node is
It sits within the lymphatic & immune system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What the lymph node connects to
The atlas records 44 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of lymphoid system.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the lymph node. 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 lymph gland and nodus lymphaticus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000029, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: lymphoid system.
- A kind of: immune organ.
- subtype: abdominal lymph node, auricular lymph node, brachial lymph node, bronchial lymph node, cervical lymph node and common iliac lymph node, and 16 more.
- contains: capsule of lymph node, cortex of lymph node, lymph, medulla of lymph node, afferent lymphatic vessel and lymph node B cell domain, and 10 more.
- composed of: lymphoid tissue.
- Continuous with: lymphatic vessel.
- contributes to morphology of: afferent lymphatic vessel.
- bounding layer of: capsule of lymph node.
Questions
Where is the lymph node?
It sits within the lymphatic & immune system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What does the lymph node connect to?
Part of: lymphoid system.
Is the lymph node 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.