tarsal gland in dogs

A modified lobulated sebaceous gland at the rim of an eyelid, responsible for the supply of meibum. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the tarsal gland is

A modified lobulated sebaceous gland at the rim of an eyelid, responsible for the supply of meibum. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the tarsal gland is

It sits in the head, within the integumentary and sensory systems. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.

What the tarsal gland connects to

The atlas records 11 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of anatomical structure, eyelid and eyelid tarsus, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the tarsal 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 Meibomian gland, gland of Meibom, glandula tarsales, palpebral gland and tarsoconjunctival gland. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001818, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Part of: anatomical structure, eyelid, eyelid tarsus and orbital region.
A kind of: eye gland, eye sebaceous gland, gland and modified sebaceous gland.
contributes to morphology of: eyelid and tarsal gland acinus.
contains: tarsal gland acinus.

Questions

Where is the tarsal gland?

What does the tarsal gland connect to?

Part of: anatomical structure, eyelid, eyelid tarsus and orbital region.

Is the tarsal 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.