flexor muscle in dogs

A skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the flexor muscle is

A skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the flexor muscle is

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

What the flexor muscle connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of appendage.

Supply and innervation

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

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000366, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: appendage.
• A kind of: skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate.
• subtype: flexor carpi radialis muscle, flexor carpi ulnaris muscle, flexor digitorum profundus, flexor hallucis longus and tibialis.

Questions

Where is the flexor muscle?

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

What does the flexor muscle connect to?

Part of: appendage.

Is the flexor 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.