cranial ganglion

The groups of nerve cell bodies associated with the twelve cranial nerves. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the cranial ganglion is

The groups of nerve cell bodies associated with the twelve cranial nerves. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the cranial ganglion is

It sits in the head, 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 cranial ganglion connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of head.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the cranial ganglion. 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 cranial ganglion, cranial ganglion part of peripheral nervous system, cranial ganglion/nerve, cranial nerve ganglion, cranial neural ganglion and cranial neural tree organ ganglion, and 5 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001714, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the cranial ganglion?

It sits in the head, 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 cranial ganglion connect to?

Part of: head.

Is the cranial ganglion 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.