occipital pole in dogs

The anterior end of the hemisphere is named the frontal pole. The posterior end is named the occipital pole. The anterior end of the temporal lobe, the temporal pole. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the occipital pole is

The anterior end of the hemisphere is named the frontal pole. The posterior end is named the occipital pole. The anterior end of the temporal lobe, the temporal pole. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the occipital pole 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 occipital pole connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. part of anatomical entity, brain and cerebral hemisphere, and 2 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the occipital pole. 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 OCP, polus occipitalis and polus occipitalis cerebri. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002902, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical entity, brain, cerebral hemisphere, nervous system and occipital lobe.
• A kind of: anatomical structure.

Questions

Where is the occipital pole?

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 occipital pole connect to?

Part of: anatomical entity, brain, cerebral hemisphere, nervous system and occipital lobe.

Is the occipital pole 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.