cerebral hemisphere

One of two bilateral, largely symmetrical organ subdivisions within the telencephalon which contain the cerebral cortex and cerebral white matter.[FMA]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the cerebral hemisphere is

One of two bilateral, largely symmetrical organ subdivisions within the telencephalon which contain the cerebral cortex and cerebral white matter.[FMA]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the cerebral hemisphere is

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

What the cerebral hemisphere connects to

The atlas records 24 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of material anatomical entity and telencephalon.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the cerebral hemisphere. 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 cerebrum, hemisphere, hemispheric regions, hemispherium cerebri, medial amygdalar nucleus and nucleus amygdaloideus medialis, and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001869, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: material anatomical entity and telencephalon.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and organ part.
• contains: amygdala, cerebral hemisphere gray matter, cerebral hemisphere white matter, claustrum of brain, frontal pole and globus pallidus, and 12 more.
• subtype: left cerebral hemisphere and right cerebral hemisphere.

Questions

Where is the cerebral hemisphere?

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

What does the cerebral hemisphere connect to?

Part of: material anatomical entity and telencephalon.

Is the cerebral hemisphere 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.