olfactory cortex in dogs

Aggregate brain region defined as those areas of cerebral cortex receiving direct synaptic input from the olfactory bulb (Price, 1973). It usually includes the piriform cortex and sometimes other areas. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the olfactory cortex is

Aggregate brain region defined as those areas of cerebral cortex receiving direct synaptic input from the olfactory bulb (Price, 1973). It usually includes the piriform cortex and sometimes other areas. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the olfactory cortex 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 olfactory cortex connects to

The atlas records 14 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of anatomical entity, brain and cerebral cortex, and 2 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the olfactory cortex. 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 archaeocortex, archeocortex, olfactory areas and olfactory lobe. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002894, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical entity, brain, cerebral cortex, nervous system and olfactory lobe.
• A kind of: anatomical structure.
• contains: anterior olfactory nucleus, olfactory tubercle, piriform cortex and secondary olfactory cortex.
• contributes to morphology of: olfactory lobe, olfactory tubercle and piriform cortex.
• overlaps: lateral olfactory stria.

Questions

Where is the olfactory cortex?

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 olfactory cortex connect to?

Part of: anatomical entity, brain, cerebral cortex, nervous system and olfactory lobe.

Is the olfactory cortex 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.