prostate gland in dogs

The prostate gland is a partly muscular, partly glandular body that is situated near the base of the mammalian male urethra and secretes an alkaline viscid fluid which is a major constituent of the ejaculatory fluid. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the prostate gland is

The prostate gland is a partly muscular, partly glandular body that is situated near the base of the mammalian male urethra and secretes an alkaline viscid fluid which is a major constituent of the ejaculatory fluid. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the prostate gland is

It sits within the reproductive system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the prostate gland connects to

The atlas records 14 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. a kind of anatomical structure and male accessory sex gland.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the prostate 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 male prostate, prostate and prostata. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002367, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: anatomical structure and male accessory sex gland.
• contains: coagulating gland, lobe of prostate, prostate duct, prostate epithelium, prostate gland smooth muscle and prostate gland stroma.
• contributes to morphology of: coagulating gland, prostate duct, prostate gland dorsolateral lobe and prostate gland ventral lobe.
• produces: prostate gland secretion.
• located in: prostatic urethra.

Questions

Where is the prostate gland?

It sits within the reproductive system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the prostate gland connect to?

A kind of: anatomical structure and male accessory sex gland.

Is the prostate 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.