tarsal gland

A modified lobulated sebaceous gland at the rim of an eyelid, responsible for the supply of meibum. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the tarsal gland is

A modified lobulated sebaceous gland at the rim of an eyelid, responsible for the supply of meibum. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the tarsal gland is

It sits in the head, within the integumentary and sensory systems. 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 tarsal gland connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of eyelid, eyelid tarsus and ocular adnexa, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the tarsal gland. 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 Meibomian gland, gland of Meibom, glandula tarsales, palpebral gland and tarsoconjunctival gland. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001818, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Part of: eyelid, eyelid tarsus, ocular adnexa and orbital region.
A kind of: eye gland, eye sebaceous gland, gland and sebaceous gland.
contributes to morphology of: eyelid.

Questions

Where is the tarsal gland?

What does the tarsal gland connect to?

Part of: eyelid, eyelid tarsus, ocular adnexa and orbital region.

Is the tarsal 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.