vertebral foramen

A foramen within a vertebral element through which the spinal cord runs. It is formed by the anterior segment, and the posterior part, the vertebral arch. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the vertebral foramen is

A foramen within a vertebral element through which the spinal cord runs. It is formed by the anterior segment, and the posterior part, the vertebral arch. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the vertebral foramen is

It sits within the skeletal 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 vertebral foramen connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of vertebral canal.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the vertebral foramen. 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 vertebra neural canal and foramen vertebrale. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001131, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: vertebral canal.
• A kind of: anatomical conduit and skeletal element.
• subtype: cervical vertebral foramen, lumbar vertebral foramen, sacral foramen, thoracic vertebral foramen and vertebral foramen of atlas.
• transports: spinal cord.

Questions

Where is the vertebral foramen?

It sits within the skeletal 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 vertebral foramen connect to?

Part of: vertebral canal.

Is the vertebral foramen 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.