geniculate ganglion in dogs
The group of sensory neuron cell bodies associated with the facial nerve (seventh cranial nerve). Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the geniculate ganglion is
The group of sensory neuron cell bodies associated with the facial nerve (seventh cranial nerve). The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the dog.
Where the geniculate ganglion 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 geniculate ganglion connects to
The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. a kind of anatomical structure, cranial ganglion and sensory ganglion.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the geniculate ganglion. 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 geniculate, facial VII ganglion, gVII, ganglion genicularum, genicular ganglion and facial ganglion, and 4 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001700, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- A kind of: anatomical structure, cranial ganglion and sensory ganglion.
- Develops from: facio-acoustic neural crest.
Questions
Where is the geniculate ganglion?
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 geniculate ganglion connect to?
A kind of: anatomical structure, cranial ganglion and sensory ganglion.
Is the geniculate ganglion 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.