vagus nerve in dogs

Cranial nerve that branches into the lateral (to body sense organs) and the intestino-accessorial (to the skin, muscles of shoulder, hyoid, larynx, gut, lungs, and heart). Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the vagus nerve is

Cranial nerve that branches into the lateral (to body sense organs) and the intestino-accessorial (to the skin, muscles of shoulder, hyoid, larynx, gut, lungs, and heart). The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the vagus nerve is

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

What the vagus nerve connects to

The atlas records 16 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of gustatory system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the vagus 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 10n, nervus vagus [x], tenth cranial nerve, vagus, vagus X nerve and vagus nerve [X], and 8 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001759, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: gustatory system.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and cranial nerve.
• Innervates: heart, stomach, cricothyroid muscle, inferior pharyngeal constrictor and superior pharyngeal constrictor.
• contains: accessory XI nerve cranial component, left recurrent laryngeal nerve, pharyngeal branch of vagus nerve, pulmonary nerve plexus, right recurrent laryngeal nerve and vagus X nerve trunk.
• branching part of: pharyngeal branch of vagus nerve and pulmonary nerve plexus.

Questions

Where is the vagus nerve?

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

What does the vagus nerve connect to?

Part of: gustatory system.

Is the vagus 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.