neurohypophysis

The posterior part of the pituitary gland that secretes hormones involved in blood pressure regulation such as oxytocin and antidiuretic hormon. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the neurohypophysis is

The posterior part of the pituitary gland that secretes hormones involved in blood pressure regulation such as oxytocin and antidiuretic hormon. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the neurohypophysis is

It sits within the nervous, endocrine and reproductive 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 neurohypophysis connects to

The atlas records 16 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of anatomical system, diencephalon and endocrine system, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the neurohypophysis. 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 NHP, infundibular process, lobus nervosus neurohypophysis, lobus posterior (glandula pituitaria), lobus posterior hypophysis and neural lobe, and 14 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002198, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical system, diencephalon, endocrine system and pituitary gland.
• A kind of: anatomical structure, circumventricular organ, endocrine gland, gland and reproductive gland.
• Adjacent to: pars intermedia of adenohypophysis.
• contains: median eminence of neurohypophysis, neural lobe of neurohypophysis and pituitary stalk.
• Develops from: neuroectoderm.
• connects: pituitary stalk.
• contributes to morphology of: pituitary stalk.

Questions

Where is the neurohypophysis?

It sits within the nervous, endocrine and reproductive 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 neurohypophysis connect to?

Part of: anatomical system, diencephalon, endocrine system and pituitary gland.

Is the neurohypophysis 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.