adrenal cortex

The thick outer layer of the adrenal gland that produces and secretes steroid hormones such as corticosterone, estrone and aldosterone. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the adrenal cortex is

The thick outer layer of the adrenal gland that produces and secretes steroid hormones such as corticosterone, estrone and aldosterone. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the adrenal cortex is

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the endocrine system. 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 adrenal cortex connects to

The atlas records 15 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of adrenal gland.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the adrenal cortex. 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 adrenal gland cortex, cortex (glandula suprarenalis), cortex of adrenal gland, cortex of suprarenal gland, suprarenal cortex and cortex glandulae suprarenalis, and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001235, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: adrenal gland.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and cortex.
• contributes to morphology of: adrenal gland, adrenal gland capsule, zona fasciculata of adrenal gland, zona glomerulosa of adrenal gland and zona reticularis of adrenal gland.
• contains: adrenal gland cortex zone, zona fasciculata of adrenal gland, zona glomerulosa of adrenal gland and zona reticularis of adrenal gland.
• subtype: left adrenal gland cortex and right adrenal gland cortex.
• Develops from: mesoderm.

Questions

Where is the adrenal cortex?

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the endocrine system. 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 adrenal cortex connect to?

Part of: adrenal gland.

Is the adrenal cortex 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.