insula in dogs

Gray matter of the insular region of the neocortex. In gyrencephalic animals, it is part of the insular lobe and lies in the depths of the lateral fissure and covered by portions of the frontal, parietal and temporal lobes. It includes Brodmann areas 13-16. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the insula is

Gray matter of the insular region of the neocortex. In gyrencephalic animals, it is part of the insular lobe and lies in the depths of the lateral fissure and covered by portions of the frontal, parietal and temporal lobes. It includes Brodmann areas 13-16. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the insula 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 insula connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of cerebral cortex and cerebral hemisphere.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the insula. 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 iNS, central lobe, cortex of island, insula lobule, insular lobe and insular region, and 10 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002022, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: cerebral cortex and cerebral hemisphere.
• A kind of: cerebral hemisphere gray matter.
• contains: insular cortex and lateral entorhinal cortex.

Questions

Where is the insula?

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 insula connect to?

Part of: cerebral cortex and cerebral hemisphere.

Is the insula 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.