exocrine pancreas

The part of the pancreas that is part of the exocrine system and which produces and store zymogens of digestive enzymes, such as chymotrypsinogen and trypsinogen in the acinar cells [GO]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the exocrine pancreas is

The part of the pancreas that is part of the exocrine system and which produces and store zymogens of digestive enzymes, such as chymotrypsinogen and trypsinogen in the acinar cells [GO]. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the exocrine pancreas is

It sits in the trunk, within the digestive 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 exocrine pancreas connects to

The atlas records 15 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of digestive system, exocrine system and pancreas.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the exocrine pancreas. 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 exocrine pancreas, pars exocrina pancreatis, exocrine component of pancreas and exocrine part of pancreas. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000017, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: digestive system, exocrine system and pancreas.
• A kind of: anatomical structure, organ, serous gland and trunk region element.
• contains: pancreatic acinus, pancreatic duct, epithelium of pancreatic duct, pancreatic lobule and ventral pancreatic duct.
• contributes to morphology of: pancreas, pancreatic acinus and pancreatic duct.

Questions

Where is the exocrine pancreas?

It sits in the trunk, within the digestive 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 exocrine pancreas connect to?

Part of: digestive system, exocrine system and pancreas.

Is the exocrine pancreas 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.