meibomian gland

BTO:0004165 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

One of the long sebaceous glands of the eyelids that discharge a fatty secretion which lubricates the eyelids. — BTO

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 > Meibomian glands 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	—

Broader habitats

sebaceous gland BTO:0001980
Integumentary system habitatmech:GOLD.dc86c8917c

Also called

Meibomian glands — GOLD

Curation

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

GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to BTO:0004165 'meibomian gland' (EXACT). Leaf label equals the BTO label exactly and no other source concept claims it. Path: Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Integumentary system > Meibomian glands (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.b490f9b61c)

Provenance

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