glenohumeral joint in dogs

The glenohumeral joint, commonly known as the shoulder joint, is a multiaxial synovial ball and socket joint and involves articulation between the glenoid fossa of the scapula (shoulder blade) and the head of the humerus (upper arm bone). [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the glenohumeral joint is

The glenohumeral joint, commonly known as the shoulder joint, is a multiaxial synovial ball and socket joint and involves articulation between the glenoid fossa of the scapula (shoulder blade) and the head of the humerus (upper arm bone). [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a joint at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the glenohumeral joint is

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

What the glenohumeral joint connects to

The atlas records 14 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of limb, pectoral girdle region and pectoral girdle skeleton, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the glenohumeral joint. 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 joint of shoulder, shoulder joint, articulatio humeri, humeral joint and humeroscapular joint. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001470, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: limb, pectoral girdle region, pectoral girdle skeleton and shoulder.
• A kind of: joint of girdle, limb joint, skeletal element, skeletal joint and synovial joint.
• Adjacent to: glenoid fossa.
• connects: humerus and scapula.
• overlaps: humerus and proximal head of humerus.

Questions

Where is the glenohumeral joint?

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

What does the glenohumeral joint connect to?

Part of: limb, pectoral girdle region, pectoral girdle skeleton and shoulder.

Is the glenohumeral joint 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.