lacrimal gland
The lacrimal glands are paired almond-shaped glands, located in or near the orbital region, that secrete the aqueous layer of the tear film.[WP]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the lacrimal gland is
The lacrimal glands are paired almond-shaped glands, located in or near the orbital region, that secrete the aqueous layer of the tear film.[WP]. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the lacrimal gland is
It sits in the head, within the sensory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the lacrimal gland connects to
The atlas records 14 typed relationships for it, across 9 kinds of connection. part of exocrine system, lacrimal apparatus and ocular adnexa, and 1 more.
Supply and innervation
Arterial supply: lacrimal artery. Venous drainage: lacrimal vein. Innervation: lacrimal nerve.
Also called
Also recorded as glandula lacrimalis, lacrimal-preorbital gland, glandula praeorbitalis, preorbital gland and tear gland. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001817, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: exocrine system, lacrimal apparatus, ocular adnexa and orbital region.
- A kind of: exocrine gland, eye gland and gland.
- contributes to morphology of: lacrimal apparatus.
- subtype: accessory lacrimal gland.
- contains: acinus of lacrimal gland.
- Supplied by: lacrimal artery.
- Innervated by: lacrimal nerve.
- Drained by: lacrimal vein.
Questions
Where is the lacrimal gland?
It sits in the head, within the sensory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the lacrimal gland connect to?
Part of: exocrine system, lacrimal apparatus, ocular adnexa and orbital region.
Is the lacrimal 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.