Abstract
The current study was conducted to investigate the presence of glomus organs in mammary glands of one humped she camels. The samples were fixed in 10% NBF and were stained with H&E. Morphometry was done with the help of stage and ocular micrometer. Glomus organs occurred in stratum profundum of corium as well as the subcutis. Occasionally, they were also present in the deeper layer of the dermis. The structure and size was variable. The cross diameter of the glomus organs were 755 mu m and the lateral extension was 392 pm. They possess common histological structures an arteriole entered the connective capsule of the glomus and divided into strongly convoluted arterio-venous channels. The arterio-venous channels united at the end to form a venule. These vascular elements were covered by a connective tissue capsule and were thus united to an organ like structure. The significance of glomus organs are not know, but they are concerned with blood distribution.