adrenal gland

Either of a pair of complex endocrine organs near the anterior medial border of the kidney consisting of a mesodermal cortex that produces glucocorticoid, mineralocorticoid, and androgenic hormones and an ectodermal medulla that produces epinephrine and norepinephrine[BTO]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the adrenal gland is

Either of a pair of complex endocrine organs near the anterior medial border of the kidney consisting of a mesodermal cortex that produces glucocorticoid, mineralocorticoid, and androgenic hormones and an ectodermal medulla that produces epinephrine and norepinephrine[BTO]. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the adrenal gland is

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the endocrine system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the adrenal gland connects to

The atlas records 16 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of abdomen, abdominal segment of trunk and endocrine system, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

Venous drainage: suprarenal vein.

Also called

Also recorded as glandula adrenalis, glandula suprarenalis, adrenal, adrenal capsule, adrenal medulla cell and atrabiliary capsule, and 5 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002369, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: abdomen, abdominal segment of trunk, endocrine system and material anatomical entity.
• A kind of: adrenal/interrenal gland, anatomical structure and trunk region element.
• contains: adrenal cortex, adrenal gland capsule and adrenal medulla.
• contributes to morphology of: adrenal cortex and adrenal medulla.
• subtype: left adrenal gland and right adrenal gland.
• bounding layer of: adrenal gland capsule.
• Drained by: suprarenal vein.

Questions

Where is the adrenal gland?

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the endocrine system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the adrenal gland connect to?

Part of: abdomen, abdominal segment of trunk, endocrine system and material anatomical entity.

Is the adrenal gland 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.