pituitary gland in dogs

The pituitary gland is an endocrine gland that secretes hormones that regulate many other glands [GO]. An endocrine gland located ventral to the diencephalon and derived from mixed neuroectodermal and non neuroectodermal origin [ZFIN]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the pituitary gland is

The pituitary gland is an endocrine gland that secretes hormones that regulate many other glands [GO]. An endocrine gland located ventral to the diencephalon and derived from mixed neuroectodermal and non neuroectodermal origin [ZFIN]. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the pituitary gland is

It sits within the nervous, endocrine and reproductive systems. 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 pituitary gland connects to

The atlas records 12 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of diencephalon.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the pituitary 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 Hp, glandula pituitaria, pituitary, pituitary body, hypophysis and hypophysis cerebri. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000007, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: diencephalon.
• A kind of: anatomical structure, endocrine gland, gland, reproductive gland and reproductive organ.
• contributes to morphology of: diencephalon, adenohypophysis and pars intermedia of adenohypophysis.
• contains: adenohypophysis and neurohypophysis.
• Develops from: head.

Questions

Where is the pituitary gland?

It sits within the nervous, endocrine and reproductive systems. 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 pituitary gland connect to?

Part of: diencephalon.

Is the pituitary 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.