pons in dogs

The part of the central nervous system lying between the medulla oblongata and the midbrain, ventral to the cerebellum. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the pons is

The part of the central nervous system lying between the medulla oblongata and the midbrain, ventral to the cerebellum. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the pons 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 pons connects to

The atlas records 26 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of anatomical entity, brain and brainstem, and 2 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the pons. 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 pons Varolii, pons of Varolius and pons cerebri. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000988, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical entity, brain, brainstem, metencephalon and nervous system.
• A kind of: anatomical structure.
• contains: abducens nucleus, Barrington's nucleus, basal part of pons, facial nucleus, inferior salivatory nucleus and middle cerebellar peduncle, and 9 more.
• contributes to morphology of: brainstem, metencephalon, facial nucleus and motor nucleus of trigeminal nerve.
• overlaps: laterodorsal tegmental nucleus.

Questions

Where is the pons?

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 pons connect to?

Part of: anatomical entity, brain, brainstem, metencephalon and nervous system.

Is the pons 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.