ventral lateral nucleus of thalamus

The ventral lateral nucleus (VL) is a nucleus of the thalamus. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the ventral lateral nucleus of thalamus is

The ventral lateral nucleus (VL) is a nucleus of the thalamus. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the ventral lateral nucleus of thalamus 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 ventral lateral nucleus of thalamus connects to

The atlas records 10 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of dorsal thalamus, ventral nuclear group and ventral thalamus.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the ventral lateral nucleus of thalamus. 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 VL, lateral ventral nucleus of thalamus, nuclei ventrales laterales thalami, nucleus ventralis intermedius, nucleus ventralis lateralis and nucleus ventralis lateralis thalami, and 11 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001925, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: dorsal thalamus, ventral nuclear group and ventral thalamus.
• A kind of: nucleus of thalamus.
• contains: area X of ventral lateral nucleus, basal ventral medial nucleus of thalamus, caudal part of ventral lateral nucleus, medial part of ventral lateral nucleus, oral part of ventral lateral nucleus and pars postrema of ventral lateral nucleus.

Questions

Where is the ventral lateral nucleus of thalamus?

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 ventral lateral nucleus of thalamus connect to?

Part of: dorsal thalamus, ventral nuclear group and ventral thalamus.

Is the ventral lateral nucleus of thalamus 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.