globus pallidus

Subcortical nucleus, functionally part of the basal ganglia, which consists of two segments the external (or lateral) and internal (or medial) separated by the medial medullary lamina in primates. In rodents, The globus pallidus lateral is separated from the medial segment by the fibers of the internal capsule/cerebral peduncle. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the globus pallidus is

Subcortical nucleus, functionally part of the basal ganglia, which consists of two segments the external (or lateral) and internal (or medial) separated by the medial medullary lamina in primates. In rodents, The globus pallidus lateral is separated from the medial segment by the fibers of the internal capsule/cerebral peduncle. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the globus pallidus is

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

What the globus pallidus connects to

The atlas records 18 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of basal ganglion, cerebral hemisphere and pallidum, and 2 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the globus pallidus. 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 pale body, paleostriatum, globus pallidus (Burdach), nucleus pallidus, pallidium and pallidum. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001875, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: basal ganglion, cerebral hemisphere, pallidum, telencephalon and lentiform nucleus.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and nucleus of brain.
• contains: accessory medullary lamina of globus pallidus, dorsal pallidum, lateral globus pallidus, lateral medullary lamina of globus pallidus, medial globus pallidus and medial medullary lamina of globus pallidus, and 1 more.
• contributes to morphology of: collection of basal ganglia.
• Develops from: diencephalon.
• overlaps: lentiform nucleus.
• connects: subthalamic fasciculus.

Questions

Where is the globus pallidus?

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

What does the globus pallidus connect to?

Part of: basal ganglion, cerebral hemisphere, pallidum, telencephalon and lentiform nucleus.

Is the globus pallidus 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.