pontine tegmentum

Dorsal portion of the pons, containing cranial nervee nuclei, ascending and descending tracts and reticular nuclei. It is continuous with the reticular formation of the medulla (Carpenter, A Core Text of Neuroanatomy, 3rd ed, 1985, pg 133). Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the pontine tegmentum is

Dorsal portion of the pons, containing cranial nervee nuclei, ascending and descending tracts and reticular nuclei. It is continuous with the reticular formation of the medulla (Carpenter, A Core Text of Neuroanatomy, 3rd ed, 1985, pg 133). The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the pontine tegmentum is

It sits within the nervous system. 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 pontine tegmentum connects to

The atlas records 34 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of pons.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the pontine tegmentum. 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 dorsal pons, dorsal portion of pons, tegmental portion of pons, tegmentum of pons, tegmentum pontis and pars dorsalis pontis, and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0003023, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: pons.
• A kind of: organ part.
• contains: locus ceruleus, pontine raphe nucleus, superior olivary complex, superior salivatory nucleus, central tegmental tract of pons and decussation of trochlear nerve, and 23 more.
• overlaps: central tegmental tract, trigeminal nuclear complex and uncinate fasciculus.

Questions

Where is the pontine tegmentum?

It sits within the nervous system. 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 pontine tegmentum connect to?

Part of: pons.

Is the pontine tegmentum 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.