macula

Thickened areas of the saccule or utricle where the termination of the vestibular nerve occurs[MESH,modified]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the macula is

Thickened areas of the saccule or utricle where the termination of the vestibular nerve occurs[MESH,modified]. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the human body.

Where the macula is

It sits in the head, within the sensory 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 macula connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of internal ear.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the macula. 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 macula, maculae, sensory macula, sensory patch, acoustic macula and acoustic maculae. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000054, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: internal ear.
• A kind of: tissue.
• subtype: macula of saccule of membranous labyrinth and macula of utricle of membranous labyrinth.

Questions

Where is the macula?

It sits in the head, within the sensory 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 macula connect to?

Part of: internal ear.

Is the macula 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.