sense organ in dogs

An organ that is capable of transducing sensory stimulus to the nervous system. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the sense organ is

An organ that is capable of transducing sensory stimulus to the nervous system. The atlas records it as a sense organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the sense organ is

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

What the sense organ connects to

The atlas records 13 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of sensory system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the sense organ. 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 organ of sense organ system, organ of sensory organ system, organ of sensory system, sense organ system organ, sensory organ and sensory organ system organ, and 4 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000020, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: sensory system.
• A kind of: organ.
• subtype: chemosensory organ, crista ampullaris, ear, eye, eyeball of camera-type eye and golgi tendon organ, and 4 more.
• contains: sensory organ epithelium.

Questions

Where is the sense organ?

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

What does the sense organ connect to?

Part of: sensory system.

Is the sense organ 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.