corpus callosum
White matter structure containing massive numbers of commissural fibers connecting cortical areas in the two cerebral hemispheres. It is subdivided into a genu, a rostrum, a body, and a splenium. (MM). Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the corpus callosum is
White matter structure containing massive numbers of commissural fibers connecting cortical areas in the two cerebral hemispheres. It is subdivided into a genu, a rostrum, a body, and a splenium. (MM). The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the corpus callosum is
It sits within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the corpus callosum connects to
The atlas records 14 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of brain and telencephalon.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the corpus callosum. 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.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002336, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: brain and telencephalon.
- A kind of: intercerebral commissure, nervous system commissure and tract of brain.
- Adjacent to: quadrigeminal cistern.
- contains: body of corpus callosum, forceps minor of corpus callosum, genu of corpus callosum, radiation of corpus callosum, rostrum of corpus callosum and splenium of the corpus callosum, and 1 more.
- contributes to morphology of: telencephalon.
Questions
Where is the corpus callosum?
It sits within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the corpus callosum connect to?
Part of: brain and telencephalon.
Is the corpus callosum 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.