ilium in dogs

Paired endochondral bone that is the dorsal-most of the pelvic bones, offering attachment areas for gluteal muscles on its main surface [PHENOSCAPE:ad]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the ilium is

Paired endochondral bone that is the dorsal-most of the pelvic bones, offering attachment areas for gluteal muscles on its main surface [PHENOSCAPE:ad]. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the ilium 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 ilium connects to

The atlas records 19 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of anatomical entity, innominate bone and pelvic girdle skeleton.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: superior gluteal artery.

Also called

Also recorded as iliac bone, ilium bone, os iliacum, os ilii, os ilium and illium. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001273, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical entity, innominate bone and pelvic girdle skeleton.
• A kind of: anatomical structure, endochondral bone, pelvic girdle bone/zone, pelvic region element and skeletal element.
• contains: acetabular part of hip bone, body of ilium, iliac blade and iliac crest.
• originates from: gluteus maximus, gluteus medius and sartorius muscle.
• composed of: bone tissue.
• contributes to morphology of: pelvic girdle bone/zone.
• connects: sacro-iliac joint.
• Supplied by: superior gluteal artery.

Questions

Where is the ilium?

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 ilium connect to?

Part of: anatomical entity, innominate bone and pelvic girdle skeleton.

Is the ilium 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.