lacrimal bone in dogs

The irregularly thin plate that forms part of the medial wall of the orbit behind the frontal process of the maxilla. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the lacrimal bone is

The irregularly thin plate that forms part of the medial wall of the orbit behind the frontal process of the maxilla. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the lacrimal 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 lacrimal bone connects to

The atlas records 16 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of anatomical entity, anatomical structure and anatomical system, and 5 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the lacrimal 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 lacrimal, lachrymal bone, lacrymal bone, ectethmoid, infraorbital 1 and lachrymal bone - infraorbital 1, 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:0001680, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical entity, anatomical structure, anatomical system, facial skeleton, orbit of skull and orbital region, and 2 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.
• originates from: orbicularis oculi muscle.

Questions

Where is the lacrimal 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 lacrimal bone connect to?

Part of: anatomical entity, anatomical structure, anatomical system, facial skeleton, orbit of skull and orbital region, and 2 more.

Is the lacrimal 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.