seminal vesicle

UBERON:0000998 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

Either of a pair of glandular pouches that lie one on either side of the male reproductive tract posterolateral to the urinary bladder and in the human male secrete a sugar- and protein-containing fluid into the ejaculatory duct. — 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 > Reproductive system > Seminal glands 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	—

Broader habitats

mesoderm-derived structure UBERON:0004120
seminal fluid secreting gland UBERON:0006868
Reproductive system habitatmech:GOLD.29feb6867b

Also called

Seminal glands — GOLD
glandula seminalis — UBERON
glandula vesiculosa — UBERON
gonecyst — UBERON
seminal gland — UBERON
vas efferens — UBERON
vesicula seminalis — UBERON
vesiculae seminales — UBERON
vesicular gland — UBERON
vesicular glands — UBERON
vesicular seminalis — UBERON
vesiculæ seminales — 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:0000998 'seminal vesicle' (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. 'Seminal gland' is UBERON's exact synonym for the seminal vesicle, and the path is Mammals > Reproductive system. Path: Host-associated > Mammals > Reproductive system > Seminal glands (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.431474dc36)

Provenance

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