ophthalmic nerve in dogs

The sensory nerve subdivision of the trigeminal nerve that transmits sensory information from the orbit and its contents, the nasal cavity and the skin of the nose and forehead. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the ophthalmic nerve is

The sensory nerve subdivision of the trigeminal nerve that transmits sensory information from the orbit and its contents, the nasal cavity and the skin of the nose and forehead. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the ophthalmic nerve is

It sits in the head, within the nervous system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the ophthalmic nerve connects to

The atlas records 8 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of head and trigeminal nerve.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the ophthalmic nerve. 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 cranial nerve V, branch V1, first branch of fifth cranial nerve, first division of fifth cranial nerve, first division of trigeminal nerve, nervus ophthalmicus (V1) and nervus ophthalmicus (Va), and 20 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000348, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: head and trigeminal nerve.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and nerve.
• Innervates: skin of face.
• branching part of: trigeminal nerve and frontal nerve (branch of ophthalmic).
• contains: frontal nerve (branch of ophthalmic).

Questions

Where is the ophthalmic nerve?

It sits in the head, within the nervous system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the ophthalmic nerve connect to?

Part of: head and trigeminal nerve.

Is the ophthalmic nerve 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.