adipose tissue

Portion of connective tissue composed of adipocytes enmeshed in areolar tissue. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the adipose tissue is

Portion of connective tissue composed of adipocytes enmeshed in areolar tissue. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the human body.

Where the adipose tissue is

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What the adipose tissue connects to

The atlas records 15 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of fascia of Camper, lobule of pinna and superficial cervical fascia.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the adipose tissue. 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 fat, fat tissue, fatty tissue, adipose, bodyfat and fatty depot. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001013, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the adipose tissue?

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What does the adipose tissue connect to?

Part of: fascia of Camper, lobule of pinna and superficial cervical fascia.

Is the adipose tissue 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.