mandibular canal

A canal within the mandible that contains the inferior alveolar nerve, inferior alveolar artery, and inferior alveolar vein. It runs obliquely downward and forward in the ramus, and then horizontally forward in the body, where it is placed under the alveoli and communicates with them by small openings. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the mandibular canal is

A canal within the mandible that contains the inferior alveolar nerve, inferior alveolar artery, and inferior alveolar vein. It runs obliquely downward and forward in the ramus, and then horizontally forward in the body, where it is placed under the alveoli and communicates with them by small openings. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the mandibular canal is

It sits in the head, within the skeletal and digestive systems. 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 mandibular canal connects to

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

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the mandibular canal. 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 inferior alveolar canal. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0006673, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: mandible.
• A kind of: foramen of skull.
• transports: inferior alveolar artery and inferior alveolar nerve.

Questions

Where is the mandibular canal?

It sits in the head, within the skeletal and digestive systems. 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 mandibular canal connect to?

Part of: mandible.

Is the mandibular canal 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.