epididymis
The elongated structure connected to the posterior surface of the testis that transports, stores, and matures spermatozoa between testis and vas deferens. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the epididymis is
The elongated structure connected to the posterior surface of the testis that transports, stores, and matures spermatozoa between testis and vas deferens. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the epididymis is
It sits within the reproductive system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the epididymis connects to
The atlas records 19 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of male genital duct, male reproductive system and reproductive system.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the epididymis. 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.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001301, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: male genital duct, male reproductive system and reproductive system.
- A kind of: anatomical conduit, anatomical structure and duct.
- Attaches to: gubernaculum testis.
- contains: adventitia of epididymis, appendix epididymis, caput epididymis, cauda epididymis, corpus epididymis and duct of epididymis, and 3 more.
- contributes to morphology of: internal male genitalia and epididymis epithelium.
- branching part of: duct of epididymis.
Questions
Where is the epididymis?
It sits within the reproductive system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the epididymis connect to?
Part of: male genital duct, male reproductive system and reproductive system.
Is the epididymis 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.