thyroid gland
A two-lobed endocrine gland found in all vertebrates, located in front of and on either side of the trachea in humans, and producing various hormones, such as triiodothyronine and calcitonin[BTO]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the thyroid gland is
A two-lobed endocrine gland found in all vertebrates, located in front of and on either side of the trachea in humans, and producing various hormones, such as triiodothyronine and calcitonin[BTO]. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the thyroid gland is
It sits within the endocrine system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the thyroid gland connects to
The atlas records 16 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of endocrine system.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the thyroid 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 thyroid and glandula thyroidea. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002046, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: endocrine system.
- A kind of: anatomical structure and endocrine gland.
- Connected to: thyroid lymph node.
- Adjacent to: trachea.
- contains: capsule of thyroid gland, glandular venous plexus, isthmus of thyroid gland, lobe of thyroid gland, parenchyma of thyroid gland and stroma of thyroid gland, and 2 more.
- left of: left lobe of thyroid gland.
- right of: right lobe of thyroid gland.
- contributes to morphology of: thyroid follicle.
Questions
Where is the thyroid gland?
It sits within the endocrine system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the thyroid gland connect to?
Part of: endocrine system.
Is the thyroid 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.