frontalis muscle belly in dogs

A belly of the occipitofrontalis muscle that is near the frontal bone. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the frontalis muscle belly is

A belly of the occipitofrontalis muscle that is near the frontal bone. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the frontalis muscle belly 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 frontalis muscle belly connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. part of head, muscle organ and organ.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the frontalis muscle belly. 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 frontal belly of occipitofrontalis, frontal part of occipitofrontalis, frontalis, frontalis muscke, orbito-temporo-auricularis and venter frontalis (musculus occipitofrontalis), and 3 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0010952, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: head, muscle organ and organ.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and muscle organ.

Questions

Where is the frontalis muscle belly?

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 frontalis muscle belly connect to?

Part of: head, muscle organ and organ.

Is the frontalis muscle belly 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.