flocculonodular lobe in dogs

The flocculonodular lobe is a lobe of the cerebellum consisting of the nodule and the flocculus. It is closely associated with the vestibulocerebellum. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the flocculonodular lobe is

The flocculonodular lobe is a lobe of the cerebellum consisting of the nodule and the flocculus. It is closely associated with the vestibulocerebellum. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the flocculonodular lobe 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 flocculonodular lobe connects to

The atlas records 12 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of anatomical entity, brain and cerebellum, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the flocculonodular lobe. 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 cerebellum flocculonodular lobe, flocculonodular lobe, flocculonodular lobe of cerebellum, lobus flocculonodularis and posterior lobe-2 of cerebellum. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0003012, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical entity, brain, cerebellum and nervous system.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and cerebellum lobe.
• contains: cerebellum vermis lobule IX, cerebellum vermis lobule X, flocculus and paraflocculus.
• contributes to morphology of: cerebellar cortex and cerebellum vermis lobule X.

Questions

Where is the flocculonodular lobe?

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 flocculonodular lobe connect to?

Part of: anatomical entity, brain, cerebellum and nervous system.

Is the flocculonodular lobe 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.