gland

An organ that functions as a secretory or excretory organ. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the gland is

An organ that functions as a secretory or excretory organ. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the gland is

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What the gland connects to

The atlas records 36 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of organ.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the gland. 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 glandular organ, Druese and glandula. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002530, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: organ.
• subtype: apocrine sweat gland, bronchus submucosal gland, duodenal gland, endocrine gland, exocrine gland and eye gland, and 27 more.
• produces: organism substance.
• contains: glandular acinus.

Questions

Where is the gland?

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What does the gland connect to?

A kind of: organ.

Is the gland 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.