femur in dogs

Endochondral longbone connecting the pelvic girdle with posterior zeugopodium skeleton.[VSAO, modified]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the femur is

Endochondral longbone connecting the pelvic girdle with posterior zeugopodium skeleton.[VSAO, modified]. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the femur is

It sits in the hindlimb, within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the femur connects to

The atlas records 36 typed relationships for it, across 9 kinds of connection. part of anatomical structure, anatomical system and appendage, and 8 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the femur. 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 thigh bone, femoral bone, mesomere 1 of pevlic appendage, os femorale, os femoris and os longissimum, and 2 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000981, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical structure, anatomical system, appendage, appendage girdle complex, appendicular skeleton and hindlimb, and 5 more.
• A kind of: bone of hip region, hindlimb long bone, skeletal element and upper leg bone.
• Connected to: patella.
• contains: diaphysis of femur, distal epiphysis of femur, distal metaphysis of femur, epiphysis of femur, metaphysis of femur and neck of femur, and 3 more.
• inserts into: adductor longus, gluteus maximus, obturator externus and pectineus muscle.
• connects: hip joint, knee joint and stifle joint.
• originates from: biceps femoris and vastus medialis.
• composed of: bone tissue.

Questions

Where is the femur?

It sits in the hindlimb, within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the femur connect to?

Part of: anatomical structure, anatomical system, appendage, appendage girdle complex, appendicular skeleton and hindlimb, and 5 more.

Is the femur 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.