spinal nerve

The any of the paired peripheral nerves formed by the union of the dorsal and ventral spinal roots from each spinal cord segment[MP,modified]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the spinal nerve is

The any of the paired peripheral nerves formed by the union of the dorsal and ventral spinal roots from each spinal cord segment[MP,modified]. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the spinal nerve is

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

What the spinal nerve connects to

The atlas records 18 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of peripheral nervous system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the spinal nerve. 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 backbone nerve, nerve of backbone, nerve of spinal column, nerve of spine, nerve of vertebral column and spinal column nerve, and 5 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001780, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: peripheral nervous system.
• A kind of: nerve.
• Innervates: geniohyoid muscle, omohyoid muscle, rectus capitis anterior, rectus capitis lateralis muscle, sternohyoid muscle and sternothyroid muscle.
• subtype: coccygeal nerve, intercostal nerve, lumbar nerve, nerve of cervical vertebra, sacral nerve and thoracic nerve.
• contributes to morphology of: dorsal root of spinal cord, spinal nerve root and ventral root of spinal cord.
• contains: spinal nerve trunk.

Questions

Where is the spinal nerve?

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

What does the spinal nerve connect to?

Part of: peripheral nervous system.

Is the spinal nerve 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.