rhombomere

A segment of the developing hindbrain[ZFA]. In the vertebrate embryo, a rhombomere is a transiently divided segment of the developing neural tube, within the hindbrain region (a neuromere) in the area that will eventually become the rhombencephalon. The rhombomeres appear as a series of slightly constricted swellings in the neural tube, caudal to the cephalic flexure.[WP]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the rhombomere is

A segment of the developing hindbrain[ZFA]. In the vertebrate embryo, a rhombomere is a transiently divided segment of the developing neural tube, within the hindbrain region (a neuromere) in the area that will eventually become the rhombencephalon. The rhombomeres appear as a series of slightly constricted swellings in the neural tube, caudal to the cephalic flexure.[WP]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the rhombomere is

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

What the rhombomere connects to

The atlas records 11 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of nervous system, neural tube and presumptive hindbrain.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the rhombomere. 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 hindbrain segment, segment of hindbrain, hindbrain neuromere, hindbrain neuromeres, rhombomere and future rhombencephalon, 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:0001892, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: nervous system, neural tube and presumptive hindbrain.
• A kind of: organ subunit.
• subtype: rhombomere 1, rhombomere 2, rhombomere 3, rhombomere 4, rhombomere 5 and rhombomere 6, and 1 more.

Questions

Where is the rhombomere?

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

What does the rhombomere connect to?

Part of: nervous system, neural tube and presumptive hindbrain.

Is the rhombomere 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.