thoracic spinal cord

The thoracic nerves are the spinal nerves emerging from the thoracic vertebrae. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the thoracic spinal cord is

The thoracic nerves are the spinal nerves emerging from the thoracic vertebrae. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the thoracic spinal cord is

It sits in the thorax, back and trunk, within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the thoracic spinal cord connects to

The atlas records 16 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of dorsal thoracic segment of trunk and thoracic segment of trunk.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the thoracic spinal cord. 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 pars thoracica medullae spinalis, segmenta thoracica medullae spinalis [1-12], thoracic region of spinal cord, thoracic segment of spinal cord, thoracic segments of spinal cord [1-12] and thoracic spinal cord. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0003038, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: dorsal thoracic segment of trunk and thoracic segment of trunk.
• A kind of: spinal cord segment.
• contains: thoracic division of spinal cord central canal, thoracic spinal cord dorsal column, thoracic spinal cord dorsal horn, thoracic spinal cord gray commissure, thoracic spinal cord gray matter and thoracic spinal cord lateral column, and 6 more.
• subtype: thoracic subsegment of spinal cord.

Questions

Where is the thoracic spinal cord?

It sits in the thorax, back and trunk, within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the thoracic spinal cord connect to?

Part of: dorsal thoracic segment of trunk and thoracic segment of trunk.

Is the thoracic spinal cord 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.