intestinal gland

A gland that is part of the intestinal mucosa. Examples include the intestinal crypts, duodenal gland[cjm]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the intestinal gland is

A gland that is part of the intestinal mucosa. Examples include the intestinal crypts, duodenal gland[cjm]. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the intestinal gland is

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

What the intestinal gland connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of digestive system, digestive tract and intestinal mucosa.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the intestinal 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 bowel mucosa gland, bowel mucosa of organ gland, bowel mucous membrane gland, bowel organ mucosa gland, gland of bowel mucosa and gland of bowel mucosa of organ, and 30 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000333, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the intestinal gland?

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

What does the intestinal gland connect to?

Part of: digestive system, digestive tract and intestinal mucosa.

Is the intestinal 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.