neck

An organism subdivision that extends from the head to the pectoral girdle, encompassing the cervical vertebral column. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the neck is

An organism subdivision that extends from the head to the pectoral girdle, encompassing the cervical vertebral column. The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the human body.

Where the neck is

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

What the neck connects to

The atlas records 28 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. a kind of organism subdivision.

Supply and innervation

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

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000974, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: organism subdivision.
• contains: ascending cervical artery, ascending pharyngeal artery, cervical fascia, cervical lymph node, cervical region and cervical thymus, and 21 more.

Questions

Where is the neck?

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

What does the neck connect to?

A kind of: organism subdivision.

Is the neck 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.