jaw skeleton in dogs
Subdivision of skeleton which includes upper and lower jaw skeletons. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the jaw skeleton is
Subdivision of skeleton which includes upper and lower jaw skeletons. The atlas records it as a system at the system scale in the dog.
Where the jaw skeleton is
It sits in the head, within the skeletal and digestive systems. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.
What the jaw skeleton connects to
The atlas records 15 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of anatomical system, facial skeleton and mouth, and 2 more.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the jaw skeleton. 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 jaw, jaw cartilage, mandibular arch skeleton, anterior splanchnocranium, jaws and mandibular arch, and 3 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001708, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: anatomical system, facial skeleton, mouth, skeletal system and skeleton.
- A kind of: anatomical structure and organism subdivision.
- contains: alveolar ridge, bone of jaw, dento-alveolar joint, skeleton of lower jaw and skeleton of upper jaw.
- contributes to morphology of: mandible and maxilla.
- develops into: premaxilla.
Questions
Where is the jaw skeleton?
It sits in the head, within the skeletal and digestive systems. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.
What does the jaw skeleton connect to?
Part of: anatomical system, facial skeleton, mouth, skeletal system and skeleton.
Is the jaw skeleton 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.