lacrimal gland

UBERON:0001817 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

The lacrimal glands are paired almond-shaped glands, located in or near the orbital region, that secrete the aqueous layer of the tear film.[WP]. — 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 > Lacrimal apparatus > Lacrimal glands	—

Broader habitats

lacrimal apparatus UBERON:0001750
exocrine gland UBERON:0002365
eye gland UBERON:0004859
lateral gland of orbital region UBERON:0015154

Also called

Lacrimal glands — GOLD
glandula lacrimalis — UBERON
glandula praeorbitalis — UBERON
lacrimal-preorbital gland — UBERON
preorbital gland — UBERON
tear 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:0001817 'lacrimal 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. Plural only; the path is Human > Integumentary system > Lacrimal apparatus. Path: Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Integumentary system > Lacrimal apparatus > Lacrimal glands (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.97443998fa)

Provenance

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