sweat gland in dogs

Any of the coil glands of the skin that secrete sweat. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the sweat gland is

Any of the coil glands of the skin that secrete sweat. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the sweat gland is

It sits within the integumentary system. 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 sweat gland connects to

The atlas records 8 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of integumental system and skin epidermis.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the sweat 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 glandula sudorifera, sudoriferous gland and sudoriparous gland. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001820, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the sweat gland?

It sits within the integumentary system. 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 sweat gland connect to?

Part of: integumental system and skin epidermis.

Is the sweat 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.