head

The head is the anterior-most division of the body [GO]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the head is

The head is the anterior-most division of the body [GO]. The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the human body.

Where the head is

It sits in the head. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the head connects to

The atlas records 178 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of craniocervical region.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the head. 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 head (volume), adult head and cephalic area. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000033, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: craniocervical region.
• A kind of: organism subdivision.
• contains: accessory meningeal artery, alisphenoid bone, angular vein, anterior auricular vein, anterior ethmoidal artery and anterior inferior cerebellar artery, and 159 more.
• develops into: olfactory epithelium, pituitary gland, premaxilla and upper lip.
• contributes to morphology of: external ear and face.
• left of: left ear and left outer canthus.
• right of: right ear and right outer canthus.
• subtype: embryonic head.

Questions

Where is the head?

It sits in the head. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the head connect to?

Part of: craniocervical region.

Is the head 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.