cerebellar cortex

The superficial gray matter of the cerebellum. It consists of three main layers, the molecular layer, the Purkinje cell layer and the granule cell layer. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the cerebellar cortex is

The superficial gray matter of the cerebellum. It consists of three main layers, the molecular layer, the Purkinje cell layer and the granule cell layer. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the cerebellar cortex is

It sits within the nervous system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the cerebellar cortex connects to

The atlas records 18 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of cerebellum.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the cerebellar cortex. 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 cortex of cerebellar hemisphere, cortex cerebellaris and cortex cerebelli. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002129, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: cerebellum.
• A kind of: gray matter of hindbrain.
• contains: cerebellar hemisphere, cerebellar layer, cerebellar vermis, cerebellum hemisphere lobule, cerebellum lobe and cerebellum vermis lobule, and 3 more.
• contributes to morphology of: cerebellum, anterior lobe of cerebellum, cerebellar hemisphere, cerebellar layer, cerebellar vermis and flocculonodular lobe, and 1 more.

Questions

Where is the cerebellar cortex?

It sits within the nervous system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the cerebellar cortex connect to?

Part of: cerebellum.

Is the cerebellar cortex 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.