skin of body in dogs

The organ covering the body that consists of the dermis and epidermis. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the skin of body is

The organ covering the body that consists of the dermis and epidermis. The atlas records it as a skin at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the skin of body is

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

What the skin of body connects to

The atlas records 17 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of integument.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the skin of body. 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 entire skin, skin organ, entire integument, integument, integumental organ and pelt, and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002097, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: integument.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and organ.
• Attaches to: buccinator muscle and cutaneous appendage.
• contains: dermis, hyponychium, perianal sebaceous gland, skin apocrine gland, skin epidermis and skin gland, and 3 more.
• composed of: zone of skin.
• inserts into: hypodermis skeletal muscle layer.
• located in: skin muscle.

Questions

Where is the skin of body?

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

What does the skin of body connect to?

Part of: integument.

Is the skin of body 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.