humerus in dogs

Paired endochondral long bone that extends between the pectoral girdle and the skeletal parts of the forelimb. [PHENOSCAPE:mah]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the humerus is

Paired endochondral long bone that extends between the pectoral girdle and the skeletal parts of the forelimb. [PHENOSCAPE:mah]. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the humerus is

It sits in the forelimb, within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the humerus connects to

The atlas records 42 typed relationships for it, across 10 kinds of connection. part of anatomical structure, anatomical system and appendage, and 9 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the humerus. 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 humeri, humerus bone, mesomere 1 of pectoral appendage, proximal metapterygial mesomere of pectoral appendage and proximal metapterygial mesomere of pectoral fin. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000976, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical structure, anatomical system, appendage, appendage girdle complex, appendicular skeleton and forelimb, and 6 more.
• A kind of: anatomical structure, forelimb long bone, long bone, shoulder bone, skeletal element and upper arm bone.
• Attaches to: cleidobrachialis muscle and deltoid.
• inserts into: cleidobrachialis muscle, coracobrachialis muscle, latissimus dorsi muscle, pectoralis major, subscapularis muscle and teres major muscle, and 1 more.
• contains: cortex of humerus, distal epiphysis of humerus, epiphysis of humerus, humerus diaphysis, metaphysis of humerus and proximal epiphysis of humerus.
• connects: elbow joint, glenohumeral joint, humeroradial joint and humeroulnar joint.
• originates from: brachialis muscle and triceps brachii.
• composed of: bone tissue.

Questions

Where is the humerus?

It sits in the forelimb, within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the humerus connect to?

Part of: anatomical structure, anatomical system, appendage, appendage girdle complex, appendicular skeleton and forelimb, and 6 more.

Is the humerus 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.