lateral geniculate body in dogs

The group of neurons that serve as the primary processor of visual information received from the retina via the optic tract and send processed information to the visual cortex of the occipital lobe. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the lateral geniculate body is

The group of neurons that serve as the primary processor of visual information received from the retina via the optic tract and send processed information to the visual cortex of the occipital lobe. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the lateral geniculate body 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 lateral geniculate body connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of dorsal thalamus and metathalamus.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the lateral geniculate body. 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 LGN, corpus geniculatum laterales, lateral geniculate complex, lateral geniculate nucleus, nucleus geniculatus lateralis and LGB, and 5 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001926, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: dorsal thalamus and metathalamus.
• A kind of: nucleus of thalamus.
• contains: dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus and ventral lateral geniculate nucleus.
• contributes to morphology of: dorsal plus ventral thalamus.

Questions

Where is the lateral geniculate body?

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 lateral geniculate body connect to?

Part of: dorsal thalamus and metathalamus.

Is the lateral geniculate body 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.