limbic lobe

Part of cerebral hemisphere located on the medial surface, forming a ring around the brain stem. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the limbic lobe is

Part of cerebral hemisphere located on the medial surface, forming a ring around the brain stem. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the limbic lobe is

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

What the limbic lobe connects to

The atlas records 10 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. a kind of lobe of cerebral hemisphere.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the limbic lobe. 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 fornicate gyrus, grande lobe limbique of Broca, limbic lobe (carpenter), fornicate convolution, fornicate lobe and gyrus fornicatus, and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002600, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the limbic lobe?

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

What does the limbic lobe connect to?

A kind of: lobe of cerebral hemisphere.

Is the limbic lobe 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.