manus in dogs

Distal segment of the fore limb, including carpal region, metacarpal region and digits. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the manus is

Distal segment of the fore limb, including carpal region, metacarpal region and digits. The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the dog.

Where the manus is

It sits in the forelimb and forepaw. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the manus connects to

The atlas records 61 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of forelimb.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the manus. 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 forelimb autopod, forelimb autopodium, hand, hand region, terminal segment of free upper limb and fore foot, and 6 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002398, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: forelimb.
• A kind of: autopod region and limb segment.
• contains: carpal region, carpometacarpal joint of digit 1, distal phalanx of manual digit 1, distal phalanx of manual digit 2, distal phalanx of manual digit 3 and distal phalanx of manual digit 4, and 51 more.
• has skeleton: skeleton of manus.

Questions

Where is the manus?

It sits in the forelimb and forepaw. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the manus connect to?

Part of: forelimb.

Is the manus 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.