testis

A gonad of a male animal. A gonad produces and releases sperm. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the testis is

A gonad of a male animal. A gonad produces and releases sperm. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the testis is

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

What the testis connects to

The atlas records 15 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of male reproductive system.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: testicular artery. Venous drainage: testicular vein.

Also called

Also recorded as gonad of male genitalia, gonad of male reproductive system, male gonad, testicle, orchis and testes, and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000473, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: male reproductive system.
• A kind of: gonad and male reproductive organ.
• Attaches to: gubernaculum testis.
• contains: mediastinum testis, seminal vesicle, seminiferous tubule epithelium, seminiferous tubule of testis, tunica albuginea of testis and tunica vaginalis testis.
• subtype: left testis and right testis.
• Develops from: indifferent gonad.
• Supplied by: testicular artery.
• Drained by: testicular vein.

Questions

Where is the testis?

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

What does the testis connect to?

Part of: male reproductive system.

Is the testis 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.