posterior semicircular canal

The posterior semicircular canal is a part of the vestibular system and detects rotations of the head in the sagittal plane. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the posterior semicircular canal is

The posterior semicircular canal is a part of the vestibular system and detects rotations of the head in the sagittal plane. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the posterior semicircular canal is

It sits in the head, within the sensory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the posterior semicircular canal connects to

The atlas records 3 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. a kind of semicircular canal.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the posterior semicircular canal. 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 canalis semicircularis posterior, caudal vertical semicircular canal, pars superior of labyrinth, posterior semicircular canals and posterior semicircular duct. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001842, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: semicircular canal.
• contains: crista of ampulla of posterior semicircular duct of membranous laybrinth and posterior semicircular duct.

Questions

Where is the posterior semicircular canal?

It sits in the head, within the sensory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the posterior semicircular canal connect to?

A kind of: semicircular canal.

Is the posterior semicircular canal 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.