head in dogs

The head is the anterior-most division of the body [GO]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the head is

The head is the anterior-most division of the body [GO]. The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the dog.

Where the head is

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

What the head connects to

The atlas records 85 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of craniocervical region.

Supply and innervation

Venous drainage: jugular vein.

Also called

Also recorded as head (volume), adult head and cephalic area. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000033, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: craniocervical region.
• A kind of: organism subdivision.
• contains: artery of lower lip, artery of upper lip, auricular vein, bony part of hard palate, cerebellar artery and cheek, and 68 more.
• develops into: olfactory epithelium, pituitary gland, premaxilla and upper lip.
• contributes to morphology of: external ear and face.
• subtype: medial nasal prominence and primary vitreous.
• Drained by: jugular vein.

Questions

Where is the head?

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

What does the head connect to?

Part of: craniocervical region.

Is the head 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.