hip joint in dogs

A synovial joint that connects the femur to the acetbulum of the innominate bone. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the hip joint is

A synovial joint that connects the femur to the acetbulum of the innominate bone. The atlas records it as a joint at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the hip joint is

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

What the hip joint connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of hip and pelvic girdle region.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the hip 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 articulatio coxofemoralis, femoro-iliac joint and coxal articulation. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001486, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: hip and pelvic girdle region.
• A kind of: joint of girdle and synovial joint.
• connects: acetabular part of hip bone and femur.
• contains: acetabular part of hip bone.

Questions

Where is the hip joint?

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

What does the hip joint connect to?

Part of: hip and pelvic girdle region.

Is the hip 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.