cerumen gland

UBERON:0013211 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

A specialized sudoriferous gland (sweat glands) located subcutaneously in the external auditory canal. — UBERON

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Integumentary system > Ceruminous glands 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	—

Broader habitats

apocrine sweat gland UBERON:0000382
Integumentary system habitatmech:GOLD.dc86c8917c

Also called

Ceruminous glands — GOLD
cerumen-secreting gland — UBERON
ceruminous gland — UBERON
ceruminous sweat gland — UBERON
earwax gland — UBERON

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

GROUND 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to UBERON:0013211 'cerumen gland' (EXACT). Variant-match review (#12): the seeder grounds on exact labels only, so GOLD's slash and plural conventions hid a term that says exactly this. The gland that produces the cerumen above; UBERON names it cerumen gland where GOLD says ceruminous. Path: Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Integumentary system > Ceruminous glands (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.77cb05c27a)

Provenance

Generated by scripts/seed_from_sources.py from the committed inventories in data/raw/. View the record.