cerebellar cortex in dogs

The superficial gray matter of the cerebellum. It consists of three main layers, the molecular layer, the Purkinje cell layer and the granule cell layer. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the cerebellar cortex is

The superficial gray matter of the cerebellum. It consists of three main layers, the molecular layer, the Purkinje cell layer and the granule cell layer. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the cerebellar cortex 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 cerebellar cortex connects to

The atlas records 23 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of cerebellum and hindbrain.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the cerebellar cortex. 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 cortex of cerebellar hemisphere, cortex cerebellaris and cortex cerebelli. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002129, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: cerebellum and hindbrain.
• A kind of: brain gray matter.
• contains: ansiform lobule crus I, ansiform lobule crus II, cerebellar hemisphere, cerebellar layer, cerebellar vermis and cerebellum intermediate zone, and 6 more.
• contributes to morphology of: cerebellum, anterior lobe of cerebellum, cerebellar hemisphere, cerebellar layer, cerebellar vermis and cerebellum lobule, and 2 more.

Questions

Where is the cerebellar cortex?

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 cerebellar cortex connect to?

Part of: cerebellum and hindbrain.

Is the cerebellar cortex 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.