intermediate mesoderm

The intermediate mesoderm is located between the lateral mesoderm and the paraxial mesoderm. It develops into the kidney and gonads. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the intermediate mesoderm is

The intermediate mesoderm is located between the lateral mesoderm and the paraxial mesoderm. It develops into the kidney and gonads. The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the human body.

Where the intermediate mesoderm is

It sits in the trunk. 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 intermediate mesoderm connects to

The atlas records 12 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of embryo, embryonic structure and material anatomical entity, and 2 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the intermediate mesoderm. 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 IM, intermediate mesenchyme, intermediate plate, intermediate plate mesoderm and mesenchyma intermedium. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0003064, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: embryo, embryonic structure, material anatomical entity, mesoderm and trunk.
• A kind of: embryonic structure and tissue.
• Adjacent to: lateral plate mesoderm and paraxial mesoderm.
• develops into: adrenal/interrenal gland and urogenital fold.
• Develops from: mesoderm.

Questions

Where is the intermediate mesoderm?

It sits in the trunk. 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 intermediate mesoderm connect to?

Part of: embryo, embryonic structure, material anatomical entity, mesoderm and trunk.

Is the intermediate mesoderm 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.