ganglion

A biological tissue mass, most commonly a mass of nerve cell bodies. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the ganglion is

A biological tissue mass, most commonly a mass of nerve cell bodies. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the ganglion is

It sits within the nervous system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the ganglion connects to

The atlas records 11 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of nervous system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the 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 ganglia and neural ganglion. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000045, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: nervous system.
• A kind of: anatomical structure.
• subtype: autonomic ganglion, cranial ganglion, ganglion of central nervous system, lumbar ganglion, paravertebral ganglion and sacral ganglion, and 1 more.
• composed of: neural tissue.
• Develops from: embryo.

Questions

Where is the ganglion?

It sits within the nervous system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the ganglion connect to?

Part of: nervous system.

Is the 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.