thymus lobule

A lobule that is part of a thymus. Divided into an outer cortex and inner medulla and separated from each other by connective tissue septa, but with the medullary tissue continuous from lobule to lobule.[ncit,modified]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the thymus lobule is

A lobule that is part of a thymus. Divided into an outer cortex and inner medulla and separated from each other by connective tissue septa, but with the medullary tissue continuous from lobule to lobule.[ncit,modified]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the thymus lobule is

It sits within the endocrine and lymphatic & immune 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 thymus lobule connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of thymus and thymus lobe.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the thymus 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 lobule of thymus, thymic lobule and thymus lobule. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002125, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: thymus and thymus lobe.
• A kind of: lobule.
• contributes to morphology of: thymus and thymus corticomedullary boundary.
• contains: thymus corticomedullary boundary.

Questions

Where is the thymus lobule?

It sits within the endocrine and lymphatic & immune 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 does the thymus lobule connect to?

Part of: thymus and thymus lobe.

Is the thymus 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.