pancreatic lobule in dogs
A dense accumulation of exocrine glands in the pancreas often surrounding islets of Langerhans. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the pancreatic lobule is
A dense accumulation of exocrine glands in the pancreas often surrounding islets of Langerhans. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.
Where the pancreatic lobule is
It sits in the trunk, within the digestive system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.
What the pancreatic lobule connects to
The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of exocrine pancreas and organ.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the pancreatic lobule. 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 lobulus pancreaticus, pancreas lobe and pancreatic lobule. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0007324, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: exocrine pancreas and organ.
- A kind of: anatomical structure.
- subtype: pancreas left lobe and pancreas right lobe.
- contains: pancreatic acinus.
Questions
Where is the pancreatic lobule?
It sits in the trunk, within the digestive system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.
What does the pancreatic lobule connect to?
Part of: exocrine pancreas and organ.
Is the pancreatic lobule 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.