gonad

Reproductive organ that produces and releases eggs (ovary) or sperm (testis). Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the gonad is

Reproductive organ that produces and releases eggs (ovary) or sperm (testis). The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the gonad is

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

What the gonad connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of reproductive system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the gonad. 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 gonada and gonads. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000991, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: reproductive system.
• A kind of: reproductive organ.
• subtype: indifferent gonad and testis.
• contains: seminiferous tubule epithelium.

Questions

Where is the gonad?

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

What does the gonad connect to?

Part of: reproductive system.

Is the gonad 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.