forelimb in dogs

A (free) limb that is connected to a pectoral girdle. The extent of this structure includes autopod, stylopod and zeugopod regions when present, but excludes the pectoral girdle and its parts. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the forelimb is

A (free) limb that is connected to a pectoral girdle. The extent of this structure includes autopod, stylopod and zeugopod regions when present, but excludes the pectoral girdle and its parts. The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the dog.

Where the forelimb is

It sits in the forelimb. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the forelimb connects to

The atlas records 89 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of appendage girdle complex and pectoral complex.

Supply and innervation

Venous drainage: basilic vein. Innervation: brachial nerve plexus.

Also called

Also recorded as anteriormost limb, fore limb, forelimb, free part of upper limb, free upper limb and membrum superius, and 6 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002102, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: appendage girdle complex and pectoral complex.
• A kind of: anatomical structure, appendage, limb and organism subdivision.
• Connected to: pectoral girdle region.
• contains: abductor pollicis longus, arm, arm bone, basilic vein, carpal bone and carpal region, and 72 more.
• Develops from: forelimb bud.
• Drained by: basilic vein.
• Innervated by: brachial nerve plexus.
• contributes to morphology of: forelimb stylopod.

Questions

Where is the forelimb?

It sits in the forelimb. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the forelimb connect to?

Part of: appendage girdle complex and pectoral complex.

Is the forelimb 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.