cranial muscle in dogs
Any skeletal muscle that is part of the head region. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the cranial muscle is
Any skeletal muscle that is part of the head region. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the dog.
Where the cranial muscle is
It sits in the head, within the muscular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.
What the cranial muscle connects to
The atlas records 14 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of craniocervical region, craniocervical region musculature and head, and 2 more.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the cranial 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 cephalic muscle, cephalic musculature, head muscle, head muscle organ, muscle of head and muscle organ of adult head, and 5 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002376, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: craniocervical region, craniocervical region musculature, head, musculature and organism subdivision.
- A kind of: anatomical structure, craniocervical region musculature and skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate.
- Attaches to: skull.
- subtype: cranial or facial muscle, jaw muscle and muscle of auditory ossicle.
- Develops from: head mesenchyme from mesoderm.
- contains: medial rectus extraocular muscle.
Questions
Where is the cranial muscle?
It sits in the head, within the muscular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.
What does the cranial muscle connect to?
Part of: craniocervical region, craniocervical region musculature, head, musculature and organism subdivision.
Is the cranial 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.