nose in dogs

The olfactory organ of vertebrates, consisting of nares, olfactory epithelia and the structures and skeletal framework of the nasal cavity. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the nose is

The olfactory organ of vertebrates, consisting of nares, olfactory epithelia and the structures and skeletal framework of the nasal cavity. The atlas records it as a sense organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the nose is

It sits in the head, within the sensory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the nose connects to

The atlas records 30 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of face and upper respiratory tract.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the nose. 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 nasal sac, nose, peripheral olfactory organ, nasus, olfactory apparatus and proboscis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000004, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: face and upper respiratory tract.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and sense organ.
• contains: external naris, external nose, nasal bone, nasal bridge, nasal capsule and nasal cartilage, and 11 more.
• contributes to morphology of: face, respiratory system, external naris, nasal capsule, nasal cavity epithelium and nasal septum, and 1 more.
• Develops from: olfactory placode.
• has skeleton: nasal skeleton.

Questions

Where is the nose?

It sits in the head, within the sensory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the nose connect to?

Part of: face and upper respiratory tract.

Is the nose 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.