visual system

The sensory system subserving the sense of vision. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the visual system is

The sensory system subserving the sense of vision. The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the human body.

Where the visual system is

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

What the visual system connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. a kind of sensory system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the visual system. 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 photosensory system and visual organ system. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002104, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: sensory system.
• contains: accessory nucleus of optic tract, cranial nerve II, dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus, eye and optic tract.

Questions

Where is the visual system?

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

What does the visual system connect to?

A kind of: sensory system.

Is the visual system 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.