dorsal plus ventral thalamus

Subcortical brain region consisting of paired gray matter bodies in the dorsal diencephalon and forming part of the lateral wall of the third ventricle of the brain. The thalamus represents the major portion of the diencephalon and is commonly divided into cellular aggregates known as nuclear groups.(MeSH). The dorsal topographic division of the interbrain. The macrodissected adult human thalamus was clearly illustrated by Vesalius in 1543 and the term as defined here was introduced by His in 1893. It includes the traditional epithalamus, dorsal thalamus, and ventral thalamus of Herrick (1910, pp. 494, 498). Also see Kuhlenbeck (1927, Ch. 9) and Jones (1985, p. 87). Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the dorsal plus ventral thalamus is

Subcortical brain region consisting of paired gray matter bodies in the dorsal diencephalon and forming part of the lateral wall of the third ventricle of the brain. The thalamus represents the major portion of the diencephalon and is commonly divided into cellular aggregates known as nuclear groups.(MeSH). The dorsal topographic division of the interbrain. The macrodissected adult human thalamus was clearly illustrated by Vesalius in 1543 and the term as defined here was introduced by His in 1893. It includes the traditional epithalamus, dorsal thalamus, and ventral thalamus of Herrick (1910, pp. 494, 498). Also see Kuhlenbeck (1927, Ch. 9) and Jones (1985, p. 87). The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the dorsal plus ventral thalamus is

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

What the dorsal plus ventral thalamus connects to

The atlas records 23 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of material anatomical entity and thalamic complex.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the dorsal plus ventral thalamus. 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 Th, thalamus, wider thalamus, thalamencephalon, thalami and thalamus opticus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001897, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: material anatomical entity and thalamic complex.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and regional part of brain.
• contains: anterior thalamic peduncle, dorsal thalamus, epithalamus, habenular commissure, inferior thalamic peduncle and nucleus of thalamus, and 6 more.
• contributes to morphology of: diencephalon, central medial nucleus, lateral geniculate body, medial geniculate body, paracentral nucleus and parafascicular nucleus, and 1 more.

Questions

Where is the dorsal plus ventral thalamus?

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

What does the dorsal plus ventral thalamus connect to?

Part of: material anatomical entity and thalamic complex.

Is the dorsal plus ventral thalamus 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.