cranial nerve in dogs

Cranial nerves are nerves that emerge directly from the brain, in contrast to spinal nerves, which emerge from segments of the spinal cord. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the cranial nerve is

Cranial nerves are nerves that emerge directly from the brain, in contrast to spinal nerves, which emerge from segments of the spinal cord. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the cranial nerve is

It sits in the head, within the nervous system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the cranial nerve connects to

The atlas records 18 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of anatomical entity, head and nervous system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the cranial nerve. 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 cranial neural tree organ, cranial nerves and nervus cranialis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001785, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical entity, head and nervous system.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and nerve.
• subtype: abducens nerve, accessory XI nerve cranial component, chorda tympani branch of facial nerve, facial nerve, glossopharyngeal nerve and hypoglossal nerve, and 7 more.

Questions

Where is the cranial nerve?

It sits in the head, within the nervous system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the cranial nerve connect to?

Part of: anatomical entity, head and nervous system.

Is the cranial nerve 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.