skin epidermis

The outer epithelial layer of the skin that is superficial to the dermis. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the skin epidermis is

The outer epithelial layer of the skin that is superficial to the dermis. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the human body.

Where the skin epidermis is

It sits within the integumentary 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 skin epidermis connects to

The atlas records 24 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of integument, skin of body and zone of skin.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the skin epidermis. 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 epidermis, skin and vertebrate epidermis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001003, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: integument, skin of body and zone of skin.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and epithelium.
• Adjacent to: dermis and epidermal-dermal junction.
• contains: apocrine sweat gland, eccrine sweat gland, epidermal ridge of digit, epidermis gland, eponychium and hair follicle, and 11 more.

Questions

Where is the skin epidermis?

It sits within the integumentary 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 skin epidermis connect to?

Part of: integument, skin of body and zone of skin.

Is the skin epidermis 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.