jugal bone in dogs

The quadrilateral bone that forms the prominence of the cheek. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the jugal bone is

The quadrilateral bone that forms the prominence of the cheek. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the jugal bone is

It sits in the head, within the skeletal system. 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 jugal bone connects to

The atlas records 18 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of anatomical entity, anatomical structure and anatomical system, and 6 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the jugal bone. 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 cheek bone, malar bone, orbital bone, os zygomaticum, zygomatic bone and jugal, and 5 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001683, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical entity, anatomical structure, anatomical system, cheek, facial skeleton and orbit of skull, and 3 more.
• A kind of: anatomical entity, anatomical structure, bone element, facial bone and skeletal element.
• contributes to morphology of: facial skeleton.
• overlaps: orbit of skull.
• contains: temporal process of zygomatic bone.
• originates from: zygomaticus muscle.

Questions

Where is the jugal bone?

It sits in the head, within the skeletal system. 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 jugal bone connect to?

Part of: anatomical entity, anatomical structure, anatomical system, cheek, facial skeleton and orbit of skull, and 3 more.

Is the jugal bone 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.