caudate nucleus in dogs

Subcortical nucleus of telecephalic origin consisting of an elongated gray mass lying lateral to and bordering the lateral ventricle. It is divided into a head, body and tail in some species. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the caudate nucleus is

Subcortical nucleus of telecephalic origin consisting of an elongated gray mass lying lateral to and bordering the lateral ventricle. It is divided into a head, body and tail in some species. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the caudate nucleus is

It sits within the nervous system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the caudate nucleus connects to

The atlas records 11 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of anatomical entity, basal ganglion and brain, and 5 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the caudate nucleus. 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 caudatus, Ammon horn fields, caudatum and nucleus caudatus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001873, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical entity, basal ganglion, brain, caudate-putamen, dorsal striatum and nervous system, and 2 more.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and nucleus of brain.
• contributes to morphology of: caudate-putamen.

Questions

Where is the caudate nucleus?

It sits within the nervous system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the caudate nucleus connect to?

Part of: anatomical entity, basal ganglion, brain, caudate-putamen, dorsal striatum and nervous system, and 2 more.

Is the caudate nucleus 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.