pancreatic lobule

A dense accumulation of exocrine glands in the pancreas often surrounding islets of Langerhans. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the pancreatic lobule is

A dense accumulation of exocrine glands in the pancreas often surrounding islets of Langerhans. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the pancreatic lobule is

It sits in the trunk, within the digestive system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the pancreatic lobule connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of exocrine pancreas.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the pancreatic lobule. 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 lobulus pancreaticus, pancreas lobe and pancreatic lobule. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0007324, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: exocrine pancreas.
• A kind of: organ part.
• contains: intralobular duct and pancreatic acinus.

Questions

Where is the pancreatic lobule?

It sits in the trunk, within the digestive system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the pancreatic lobule connect to?

Part of: exocrine pancreas.

Is the pancreatic lobule 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.