pancreas
An endoderm derived structure that produces precursors of digestive enzymes and blood glucose regulating hormones[GO]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the pancreas is
An endoderm derived structure that produces precursors of digestive enzymes and blood glucose regulating hormones[GO]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the pancreas is
It sits in the trunk. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the pancreas connects to
The atlas records 26 typed relationships for it, across 10 kinds of connection. a kind of viscus.
Supply and innervation
Arterial supply: dorsal pancreatic artery and pancreatic artery.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001264, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- A kind of: viscus.
- contains: endocrine pancreas, body of pancreas, dorsal pancreas, exocrine pancreas, head of pancreas and intercalated duct of pancreas, and 7 more.
- located in: coelemic cavity lumen and pancreaticoduodenal lymph node.
- participates in: Digestion and Blood glucose regulation.
- Supplied by: dorsal pancreatic artery and pancreatic artery.
- contributes to morphology of: endocrine pancreas and exocrine pancreas.
- flows to: duodenum.
- regulates: blood.
Questions
Where is the pancreas?
It sits in the trunk. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the pancreas connect to?
A kind of: viscus.
Is the pancreas 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.