gingiva

The fibrous investing tissue, covered by keratinized epithelium, that immediately surrounds a tooth and is contiguous with its periodontal ligament and with the mucosal tissues of the mouth[Glossary of Periodontal Terms 2001]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the gingiva is

The fibrous investing tissue, covered by keratinized epithelium, that immediately surrounds a tooth and is contiguous with its periodontal ligament and with the mucosal tissues of the mouth[Glossary of Periodontal Terms 2001]. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the human body.

Where the gingiva is

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

What the gingiva connects to

The atlas records 15 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of mouth and mouth mucosa.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the gingiva. 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 gum, gum tissue, gums and gingival mucosa. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001828, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: mouth and mouth mucosa.
• A kind of: anatomical structure, mouth mucosa and organism subdivision.
• Adjacent to: alveolar ridge, periodontal ligament and gingival groove.
• contains: dentogingival junction, gingival epithelium, parakeratinized epithelium of gingiva and retromolar triangle.
• subtype: gingiva of lower jaw and gingiva of upper jaw.
• Continuous with: mouth mucosa.

Questions

Where is the gingiva?

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

What does the gingiva connect to?

Part of: mouth and mouth mucosa.

Is the gingiva 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.