parathyroid gland in dogs

The parathyroid gland is an endocrine gland for secretion of parathyroid hormone, usually found as a pair, embedded in the connective tissue capsule on the posterior surface of the thyroid gland. Parathyroid regulates calcium and phosphorous metabolism. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the parathyroid gland is

The parathyroid gland is an endocrine gland for secretion of parathyroid hormone, usually found as a pair, embedded in the connective tissue capsule on the posterior surface of the thyroid gland. Parathyroid regulates calcium and phosphorous metabolism. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the parathyroid gland is

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

What the parathyroid gland connects to

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

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the parathyroid 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 parathyroid, epithelial body and parathyroid secreting cell. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001132, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the parathyroid gland?

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

What does the parathyroid gland connect to?

Part of: endocrine system.

Is the parathyroid 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.