endocrine system
Anatomical system that consists of the glands and parts of glands that produce endocrine secretions and help to integrate and control bodily metabolic activity. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the endocrine system is
Anatomical system that consists of the glands and parts of glands that produce endocrine secretions and help to integrate and control bodily metabolic activity. The atlas records it as a region at the system scale in the human body.
Where the endocrine system is
It sits within the endocrine system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What the endocrine system connects to
The atlas records 18 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of material anatomical entity.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the endocrine system. 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 endocrine glandular system, endocrine system and systema endocrinum. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000949, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- A kind of: material anatomical entity.
- contains: adrenal gland, chromaffin system, endocrine gland, endocrine pancreas, head kidney and hypothalamo-hypophyseal system, and 9 more.
- composed of: endocrine gland.
- develops into: foramen cecum of tongue.
Questions
Where is the endocrine system?
It sits within the endocrine system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What does the endocrine system connect to?
A kind of: material anatomical entity.
Is the endocrine system 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.