ankle joint in dogs

A joint that connects the hindlimb autopod and zeugopod skeletons. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the ankle joint is

A joint that connects the hindlimb autopod and zeugopod skeletons. The atlas records it as a joint at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the ankle joint is

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

What the ankle joint connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of hindlimb and limb.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the ankle joint. 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 gambrel, hock, hock joint, talotibial joint, mortise joint and talocrural articulation, and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001488, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: hindlimb and limb.
• A kind of: hindlimb joint, limb joint and synovial joint.
• connects: skeleton of pes.
• overlaps: pes.

Questions

Where is the ankle joint?

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

What does the ankle joint connect to?

Part of: hindlimb and limb.

Is the ankle joint 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.