cingulate gyrus

One of the convolutions on the medial surface of the cerebral hemisphere. It surrounds the rostral part of the brain and interhemispheric commissure and forms part of the limbic system. (MSH) One of three essential structures comprising the limbic lobe, the other two being the hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus. (CSP). Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the cingulate gyrus is

One of the convolutions on the medial surface of the cerebral hemisphere. It surrounds the rostral part of the brain and interhemispheric commissure and forms part of the limbic system. (MSH) One of three essential structures comprising the limbic lobe, the other two being the hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus. (CSP). The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the human body.

Where the cingulate gyrus is

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

What the cingulate gyrus connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of limbic system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the cingulate gyrus. 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 cingulate area, cingulate region, falciform lobe, upper limbic gyrus, cingular gyrus and gyri cinguli. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002967, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: limbic system.
• A kind of: gyrus.
• Adjacent to: cingulate sulcus.
• contains: anterior cingulate gyrus, isthmus of cingulate gyrus and posterior cingulate gyrus.
• contributes to morphology of: cerebral cortex.

Questions

Where is the cingulate gyrus?

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

What does the cingulate gyrus connect to?

Part of: limbic system.

Is the cingulate gyrus 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.