nose
The olfactory organ of vertebrates, consisting of nares, olfactory epithelia and the structures and skeletal framework of the nasal cavity. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the nose is
The olfactory organ of vertebrates, consisting of nares, olfactory epithelia and the structures and skeletal framework of the nasal cavity. The atlas records it as a sense organ at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the nose is
It sits in the head, within the sensory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the nose connects to
The atlas records 33 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of face and upper respiratory tract.
Supply and innervation
Venous drainage: external nasal vein.
Also called
Also recorded as nasal sac, nose, peripheral olfactory organ, nasus, olfactory apparatus and proboscis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000004, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: face and upper respiratory tract.
- A kind of: anatomical structure and olfactory organ.
- contains: epithelium of external nose, epithelium of vomeronasal organ, external naris, external nose, nasal bone and nasal capsule, and 13 more.
- contributes to morphology of: face, respiratory system, external naris, nasal capsule, nasal cavity epithelium and nasal septum, and 1 more.
- Develops from: olfactory placode.
- has skeleton: nasal skeleton.
- Drained by: external nasal vein.
Questions
Where is the nose?
It sits in the head, within the sensory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the nose connect to?
Part of: face and upper respiratory tract.
Is the nose 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.