peripheral nervous system

A major division of the nervous system that contains nerves which connect the central nervous system (CNS) with sensory organs, other organs, muscles, blood vessels and glands. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the peripheral nervous system is

A major division of the nervous system that contains nerves which connect the central nervous system (CNS) with sensory organs, other organs, muscles, blood vessels and glands. The atlas records it as a system at the system scale in the human body.

Where the peripheral nervous system is

It sits within the nervous system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the peripheral nervous system connects to

The atlas records 15 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of nervous system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the peripheral nervous system. 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 PNS, pars peripherica and systema nervosum periphericum. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000010, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: nervous system.
• A kind of: organ system subdivision.
• contains: autonomic ganglion, autonomic nervous system, carotid body, endoneurium, epibranchial placode and epineurium, and 6 more.
• develops into: pterygopalatine ganglion.

Questions

Where is the peripheral nervous system?

It sits within the nervous system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the peripheral nervous system connect to?

Part of: nervous system.

Is the peripheral nervous system 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.