tongue in dogs

A muscular organ in the floor of the mouth. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the tongue is

A muscular organ in the floor of the mouth. The atlas records it as a sense organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the tongue is

It sits within the digestive and sensory systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the tongue connects to

The atlas records 34 typed relationships for it, across 12 kinds of connection. part of gustatory system and mouth.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: lingual artery. Innervation: lingual nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as glossus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001723, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: gustatory system and mouth.
• A kind of: digestive system element and sense organ.
• Attaches to: hyoglossus muscle.
• Adjacent to: oral opening.
• contains: anterior lingual gland, epithelium of tongue, foramen cecum of tongue, frenulum of tongue, gustatory gland and intrinsic muscle of tongue, and 8 more.
• inserts into: hyoglossus muscle, palatoglossus muscle, styloglossus and transverse muscle of tongue.
• contributes to morphology of: digestive system, epithelium of tongue and tongue muscle.
• Develops from: digestive system, digestive tract and mouth.

Questions

Where is the tongue?

It sits within the digestive and sensory systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the tongue connect to?

Part of: gustatory system and mouth.

Is the tongue 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.