ultimobranchial body in dogs

An outpocketing of one of the caudal pharyngeal pouches that is comprised on calcitonin-producing parafollicular cells. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the ultimobranchial body is

An outpocketing of one of the caudal pharyngeal pouches that is comprised on calcitonin-producing parafollicular cells. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the ultimobranchial body is

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

What the ultimobranchial body connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of endocrine system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the ultimobranchial 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 corpus ultimopharyngeum, ultimobranchial gland, ultimopharyngeal body, ultimopharyngeal gland, postbranchial body and telobranchial body, and 3 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0003092, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: endocrine system.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and endocrine gland.
• Develops from: pharyngeal pouch.

Questions

Where is the ultimobranchial body?

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

What does the ultimobranchial body connect to?

Part of: endocrine system.

Is the ultimobranchial 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.