knee in dogs

A segment of the hindlimb that corresponds to the joint connecting a hindlimb stylopod and zeugopod. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the knee is

A segment of the hindlimb that corresponds to the joint connecting a hindlimb stylopod and zeugopod. The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the dog.

Where the knee is

It sits in the hindlimb. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the knee connects to

The atlas records 8 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of hindlimb and leg.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the knee. 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 knee region. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001465, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: hindlimb and leg.
• A kind of: limb segment.
• contains: knee connective tissue, knee joint, patella and skin of knee.
• overlaps: popliteal vein.

Questions

Where is the knee?

It sits in the hindlimb. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the knee connect to?

Part of: hindlimb and leg.

Is the knee 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.