bone foramen in dogs

Anatomical space that is an opening in a bone, usually for passage of blood vessels or nerves. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the bone foramen is

Anatomical space that is an opening in a bone, usually for passage of blood vessels or nerves. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the bone foramen is

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

What the bone foramen connects to

The atlas records 13 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of bone element.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the bone 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 foramen. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0005744, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: bone element.
• A kind of: anatomical structure.
• subtype: foramen magnum, greater sciatic notch, optic foramen, osseus cochlear canal, oval window and round window of inner ear, and 5 more.

Questions

Where is the bone foramen?

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

What does the bone foramen connect to?

Part of: bone element.

Is the bone foramen 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.