parietal lobe

Upper central part of the cerebral hemisphere. (MSH). Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the parietal lobe is

Upper central part of the cerebral hemisphere. (MSH). The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the parietal lobe is

It sits within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the parietal lobe connects to

The atlas records 21 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. a kind of lobe of cerebral hemisphere.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the parietal lobe. 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 parietal region, regio parietalis and lobus parietalis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001872, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: lobe of cerebral hemisphere.
• Adjacent to: temporal lobe, frontal lobe and occipital lobe.
• contains: angular gyrus, inferior parietal cortex, intraparietal sulcus, parietal cortex, postcentral gyrus and postcentral sulcus of parietal lobe, and 5 more.
• contributes to morphology of: telencephalon, postcentral gyrus and supramarginal gyrus.
• subtype: left parietal lobe and right parietal lobe.
• connects: central sulcus.

Questions

Where is the parietal lobe?

It sits within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the parietal lobe connect to?

A kind of: lobe of cerebral hemisphere.

Is the parietal lobe 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.