carotid body in dogs

A bilateral sensory organ in the peripheral nervous system located in the adventitia of the bifurcation of the common carotid artery. The carotid body is a chemoreceptive organ that senses the pH, carbon dioxide, and oxygen concentrations in the blood and plays a crucial role in their homeostatic control. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the carotid body is

A bilateral sensory organ in the peripheral nervous system located in the adventitia of the bifurcation of the common carotid artery. The carotid body is a chemoreceptive organ that senses the pH, carbon dioxide, and oxygen concentrations in the blood and plays a crucial role in their homeostatic control. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the carotid body is

It sits within the nervous system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the carotid body connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of peripheral nervous system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the carotid body. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as carotid glomus and glomus caroticum. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001629, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: peripheral nervous system.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and organ.
• overlaps: external carotid artery and internal carotid artery.

Questions

Where is the carotid body?

It sits within the nervous system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the carotid body connect to?

Part of: peripheral nervous system.

Is the carotid body the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.