central canal of spinal cord

Spinal cord structure that is part of the ventricular system and is filled with cerebral-spinal fluid and runs the length of the spinal cord. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the central canal of spinal cord is

Spinal cord structure that is part of the ventricular system and is filled with cerebral-spinal fluid and runs the length of the spinal cord. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the central canal of spinal cord is

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

What the central canal of spinal cord connects to

The atlas records 15 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of spinal cord and ventricular system of central nervous system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the central canal of spinal cord. 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 canalis centralis, central canal, central canal of spinal cord, spinal cord central canal, ventricle of spinal cord and central canal, spinal cord/medulla. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002291, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: spinal cord and ventricular system of central nervous system.
• A kind of: anatomical conduit and anatomical structure.
• contains: cerebrospinal fluid, cervical division of cord spinal central canal, lumbar division of spinal cord central canal, lumen of central canal of spinal cord, sacral division of spinal cord central canal and spinal cord ependyma, and 2 more.
• contributes to morphology of: spinal cord.
• Develops from: neural tube.
• surrounded by: spinal cord gray commissure.

Questions

Where is the central canal of spinal cord?

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

What does the central canal of spinal cord connect to?

Part of: spinal cord and ventricular system of central nervous system.

Is the central canal of spinal cord 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.