peripheral nervous system in dogs

A major division of the nervous system that contains nerves which connect the central nervous system (CNS) with sensory organs, other organs, muscles, blood vessels and glands. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the peripheral nervous system is

A major division of the nervous system that contains nerves which connect the central nervous system (CNS) with sensory organs, other organs, muscles, blood vessels and glands. The atlas records it as a system at the system scale in the dog.

Where the peripheral nervous system is

It sits within the nervous system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the peripheral nervous system connects to

The atlas records 19 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of anatomical system and nervous system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the peripheral nervous system. 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 PNS, pars peripherica and systema nervosum periphericum. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000010, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical system and nervous system.
• A kind of: anatomical structure.
• contains: autonomic nervous system, baroreceptor, carotid body, endoneurial fluid, epithelium of segmental bronchus and ganglion of peripheral nervous system, and 9 more.
• develops into: pterygopalatine ganglion.

Questions

Where is the peripheral nervous system?

It sits within the nervous system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the peripheral nervous system connect to?

Part of: anatomical system and nervous system.

Is the peripheral nervous system 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.