abdominal external oblique muscle in dogs

The lateral abdominal wall muscle that is the most superficial, immediately superficial to the internal oblique. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the abdominal external oblique muscle is

The lateral abdominal wall muscle that is the most superficial, immediately superficial to the internal oblique. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the abdominal external oblique muscle is

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the muscular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the abdominal external oblique muscle connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of abdominal wall.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the abdominal external oblique muscle. 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 abdominal external oblique muscle, external abdominal oblique muscle, external oblique, external oblique muscle, obliquus externus abdominis and external abdominal oblique, and 8 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0005442, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: abdominal wall.
• A kind of: abdominal oblique muscle and organism subdivision.
• originates from: rib.
• superficial to: abdominal internal oblique muscle.
• contains: inguinal ring.

Questions

Where is the abdominal external oblique muscle?

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the muscular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the abdominal external oblique muscle connect to?

Part of: abdominal wall.

Is the abdominal external oblique muscle the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.