clitoris

The small, erectile body located at the anterior end of the vulva. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the clitoris is

The small, erectile body located at the anterior end of the vulva. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the clitoris is

It sits within the reproductive system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the clitoris connects to

The atlas records 17 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of mammalian vulva and reproductive system.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: dorsal nerve of clitoris and nerve of clitoris.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002411, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: mammalian vulva and reproductive system.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and organ.
• contains: corpus cavernosum clitoridis, crus of clitoris, deep artery of clitoris, deep dorsal vein of clitoris, dorsal artery of clitoris and dorsal nerve of clitoris, and 3 more.
• Innervated by: dorsal nerve of clitoris and nerve of clitoris.
• contributes to morphology of: external female genitalia.
• Develops from: undifferentiated genital tubercle.

Questions

Where is the clitoris?

It sits within the reproductive system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the clitoris connect to?

Part of: mammalian vulva and reproductive system.

Is the clitoris 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.