caudate nucleus

Subcortical nucleus of telecephalic origin consisting of an elongated gray mass lying lateral to and bordering the lateral ventricle. It is divided into a head, body and tail in some species. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the caudate nucleus is

Subcortical nucleus of telecephalic origin consisting of an elongated gray mass lying lateral to and bordering the lateral ventricle. It is divided into a head, body and tail in some species. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the caudate nucleus is

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

What the caudate nucleus connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of corpus striatum, dorsal striatum and striatum, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the caudate nucleus. 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 caudatus, Ammon horn fields, caudatum and nucleus caudatus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001873, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: corpus striatum, dorsal striatum, striatum and telencephalon.
• A kind of: central nervous system cell part cluster and nucleus of brain.
• contains: body of caudate nucleus, head of caudate nucleus and tail of caudate nucleus.

Questions

Where is the caudate nucleus?

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

What does the caudate nucleus connect to?

Part of: corpus striatum, dorsal striatum, striatum and telencephalon.

Is the caudate nucleus the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.