gastrocnemius in dogs

The most superficial muscle of the triceps surae group, in the posterior portion of the lower hindleg. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the gastrocnemius is

The most superficial muscle of the triceps surae group, in the posterior portion of the lower hindleg. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the gastrocnemius is

It sits in the hindlimb, within the muscular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the gastrocnemius connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of hindlimb zeugopod and triceps surae.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: tibial nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as gastrocnemius muscle, m. gastrocnemius, m.gastrocnemius and musculus gastrocnemius. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001388, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: hindlimb zeugopod and triceps surae.
• A kind of: hindlimb zeugopod muscle.
• Adjacent to: sesamoid bone of gastrocnemius.
• inserts into: calcaneal tendon and calcaneus.
• antagonist of: tibialis anterior.
• contributes to morphology of: limb muscle.
• Innervated by: tibial nerve.

Questions

Where is the gastrocnemius?

It sits in the hindlimb, within the muscular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the gastrocnemius connect to?

Part of: hindlimb zeugopod and triceps surae.

Is the gastrocnemius 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.