ovary

The gonad of a female organism which contains germ cells. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the ovary is

The gonad of a female organism which contains germ cells. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the ovary is

It sits within the reproductive system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the ovary connects to

The atlas records 25 typed relationships for it, across 9 kinds of connection. part of female reproductive system.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: ovarian artery and uterine artery. Venous drainage: ovarian vein.

Also called

Also recorded as animal ovary, female gonad, female organism genitalia gonad, female organism genitalia gonada, female organism reproductive system gonad and female organism reproductive system gonada, and 19 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000992, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: female reproductive system.
• A kind of: female reproductive organ and gonad.
• Attaches to: ovarian ligament and suspensory ligament of ovary.
• contains: capsule of ovary, corpus luteum, germinal epithelium of ovary, granulosa cell layer, mesenchyme of ovary and mesovarium, and 7 more.
• subtype: left ovary and right ovary.
• Supplied by: ovarian artery and uterine artery.
• Develops from: indifferent gonad.
• bounding layer of: capsule of ovary.

Questions

Where is the ovary?

It sits within the reproductive system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the ovary connect to?

Part of: female reproductive system.

Is the ovary 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.