central nervous system

The central nervous system is the core nervous system that serves an integrating and coordinating function. In vertebrates it consists of the neural tube derivatives: the brain and spinal cord. In invertebrates it includes central ganglia plus nerve cord. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the central nervous system is

The central nervous system is the core nervous system that serves an integrating and coordinating function. In vertebrates it consists of the neural tube derivatives: the brain and spinal cord. In invertebrates it includes central ganglia plus nerve cord. The atlas records it as a system at the system scale in the human body.

Where the central nervous system is

It sits within the nervous system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the central nervous system connects to

The atlas records 28 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of nervous system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the central nervous system. 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 CNS, systema nervosum centrale, cerebrospinal axis and neuraxis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001017, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: nervous system.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and organ system subdivision.
• contains: axon tract, brain, central nervous system cell part cluster, cranial nerve II, ganglion of central nervous system and gray matter, and 11 more.
• develops into: facial nucleus, inferior salivatory nucleus, meninx, metencephalon, nucleus ambiguus and spinal cord, and 1 more.
• bounding layer of: meningeal cluster.

Questions

Where is the central nervous system?

It sits within the nervous system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the central nervous system connect to?

Part of: nervous system.

Is the central nervous system 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.