adenohypophysis
The glandular, anterior lobe of the pituitary gland. The anterior pituitary regulates several physiological processes including stress, growth, and reproduction[WP]. The anterior lobe of the hypophysis (pituitary gland). This lobe contains cells that produce prolactin, growth hormone, thyroid-stimulating hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone and proopiomelanocortin[ZFA]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the adenohypophysis is
The glandular, anterior lobe of the pituitary gland. The anterior pituitary regulates several physiological processes including stress, growth, and reproduction[WP]. The anterior lobe of the hypophysis (pituitary gland). This lobe contains cells that produce prolactin, growth hormone, thyroid-stimulating hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone and proopiomelanocortin[ZFA]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the adenohypophysis is
It sits within the nervous, endocrine and reproductive systems. 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 adenohypophysis connects to
The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of pituitary gland and reproductive system.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the adenohypophysis. 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 AHP, anterior hypophysis, anterior lobe (hypophysis), anterior lobe of hypophysis, anterior lobe of pituitary and anterior lobe of pituitary gland, and 11 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002196, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: pituitary gland and reproductive system.
- A kind of: anatomical structure and organ part.
- contains: pars distalis of adenohypophysis, pars intermedia of adenohypophysis and pars tuberalis of adenohypophysis.
- contributes to morphology of: pituitary gland.
- connects: hypothalamo-hypophyseal system.
Questions
Where is the adenohypophysis?
It sits within the nervous, endocrine and reproductive systems. 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 adenohypophysis connect to?
Part of: pituitary gland and reproductive system.
Is the adenohypophysis the same in other species?
Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.