mucous gland

A gland in which the principal secretory cells are mucus secreting cells. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the mucous gland is

A gland in which the principal secretory cells are mucus secreting cells. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the mucous gland is

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What the mucous gland connects to

The atlas records 19 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of exocrine gland.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the mucous 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 glandula mucosa, muciparous gland, mucous secreting gland, mucus gland and mucus-secreting gland. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000414, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the mucous gland?

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What does the mucous gland connect to?

A kind of: exocrine gland.

Is the mucous 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.