spinal cord in dogs

Part of the central nervous system located in the vertebral canal continuous with and caudal to the brain; demarcated from brain by plane of foramen magnum. It is composed of an inner core of gray matter in which nerve cells predominate, and an outer layer of white matter in which myelinated nerve fibers predominate, and surrounds the central canal. (CUMBO). Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the spinal cord is

Part of the central nervous system located in the vertebral canal continuous with and caudal to the brain; demarcated from brain by plane of foramen magnum. It is composed of an inner core of gray matter in which nerve cells predominate, and an outer layer of white matter in which myelinated nerve fibers predominate, and surrounds the central canal. (CUMBO). The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the spinal cord is

It sits in the back, within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the spinal cord connects to

The atlas records 54 typed relationships for it, across 11 kinds of connection. part of central nervous system and dorsum.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: spinal artery and vertebral artery. Venous drainage: vertebral vein.

Also called

Also recorded as SpC, cerebro-cerebellar fissure, cerebrocerebellar fissure, fissura cerebro-cerebellaris, fissura cerebrocerebellaris and medulla spinalis, and 2 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002240, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: central nervous system and dorsum.
• A kind of: anatomical structure, cavitated compound organ and dorsal region element.
• contains: central canal of spinal cord, dorsal commissural nucleus of spinal cord, dorsal funiculus of spinal cord, dorsal horn of spinal cord, dorsal thoracic nucleus and floor plate spinal cord region, and 23 more.
• contributes to morphology of: central canal of spinal cord, gray matter of spinal cord, spinal cord commissure, spinal cord ependyma, spinal cord motor column and white matter of spinal cord.
• Develops from: central nervous system, future spinal cord and nervous system.
• overlaps: tectospinal tract, ventral corticospinal tract and vestibulospinal tract.
• Continuous with: brainstem and cervical flexure.
• Supplied by: spinal artery and vertebral artery.

Questions

Where is the spinal cord?

It sits in the back, within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the spinal cord connect to?

Part of: central nervous system and dorsum.

Is the spinal cord 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.