external genitalia

The external genitalia are the outer sex organs, such as the penis or vulva in mammals. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the external genitalia is

The external genitalia are the outer sex organs, such as the penis or vulva in mammals. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the external genitalia is

It sits within the reproductive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the external genitalia connects to

The atlas records 10 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of reproductive system.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: deep external pudendal artery, internal pudendal artery and superficial external pudendal artery. Innervation: pudendal nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as external genitalia, external reproductive organ and external sex organ. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0004176, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: reproductive system.
• A kind of: reproductive organ.
• Supplied by: deep external pudendal artery, internal pudendal artery and superficial external pudendal artery.
• subtype: external male genitalia and indifferent external genitalia.
• Innervated by: pudendal nerve.
• contains: scrotum skin.
• Develops from: urogenital fold.

Questions

Where is the external genitalia?

It sits within the reproductive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the external genitalia connect to?

Part of: reproductive system.

Is the external genitalia 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.