frontal pole

Component of the frontal lobe. The rostral and caudal boundaries of the frontal pole are the superior frontal gyrus and the rostral division of the middle frontal gyrus respectively (Christine Fennama-Notestine). Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the frontal pole is

Component of the frontal lobe. The rostral and caudal boundaries of the frontal pole are the superior frontal gyrus and the rostral division of the middle frontal gyrus respectively (Christine Fennama-Notestine). The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the frontal pole is

It sits 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 frontal pole connects to

The atlas records 3 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. part of cerebral hemisphere and frontal lobe.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the frontal pole. 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 frontal pole, polus frontalis and frontal pole, cerebral cortex. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002795, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: cerebral hemisphere and frontal lobe.
• A kind of: regional part of brain.

Questions

Where is the frontal pole?

It sits 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 frontal pole connect to?

Part of: cerebral hemisphere and frontal lobe.

Is the frontal pole 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.