major vestibular gland

The paired glands located slightly posterior and to the left and right of the opening of the vagina in the superficial perineal pouch in females; they secrete mucus to lubricate the vagina and are homologous to bulbourethral (Cowper's) glands in males. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the major vestibular gland is

The paired glands located slightly posterior and to the left and right of the opening of the vagina in the superficial perineal pouch in females; they secrete mucus to lubricate the vagina and are homologous to bulbourethral (Cowper's) glands in males. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the major vestibular gland is

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

What the major vestibular gland connects to

The atlas records 10 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of exocrine system, integumental system and material anatomical entity.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the major vestibular 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 Bartholin gland, Bartholin's gland, Tiedemann's gland, vulvovaginal gland, Duverney's gland and glandula vestibularis major, and 2 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000460, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the major vestibular gland?

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

What does the major vestibular gland connect to?

Part of: exocrine system, integumental system and material anatomical entity.

Is the major vestibular 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.