prostate gland

The prostate gland is a partly muscular, partly glandular body that is situated near the base of the mammalian male urethra and secretes an alkaline viscid fluid which is a major constituent of the ejaculatory fluid. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the prostate gland is

The prostate gland is a partly muscular, partly glandular body that is situated near the base of the mammalian male urethra and secretes an alkaline viscid fluid which is a major constituent of the ejaculatory fluid. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the prostate gland is

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

What the prostate gland connects to

The atlas records 24 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. a kind of anatomical structure and male accessory sex gland.

Supply and innervation

Venous drainage: prostatic venule.

Also called

Also recorded as male prostate, prostate and prostata. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002367, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: anatomical structure and male accessory sex gland.
• contains: apex of prostate, base of prostate, connective tissue of prostate gland, inferolateral surface of prostate, lobe of prostate and prostate duct, and 9 more.
• bounding layer of: anterior surface of prostate, posterior surface of prostate and surface of prostate.
• contributes to morphology of: prostate duct.
• produces: prostate gland secretion.
• located in: prostatic urethra.
• Drained by: prostatic venule.

Questions

Where is the prostate gland?

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

What does the prostate gland connect to?

A kind of: anatomical structure and male accessory sex gland.

Is the prostate 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.