maxilla in dogs
The bone which normally forms the lateral upper jaw in osteichthyans, including tetrapods. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the maxilla is
The bone which normally forms the lateral upper jaw in osteichthyans, including tetrapods. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the dog.
Where the maxilla 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 maxilla connects to
The atlas records 20 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of anatomical entity, anatomical structure and anatomical system, and 4 more.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the maxilla. 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 upper jaw bone, maxillae and maxillary bone. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002397, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: anatomical entity, anatomical structure, anatomical system, skeletal system, skeleton and skeleton of upper jaw, and 1 more.
- A kind of: anatomical structure, bone element, bone of jaw and skeletal element.
- Connected to: palatine bone.
- Attaches to: buccinator muscle and upper jaw molar.
- Adjacent to: premaxilla.
- contains: alveolar process of maxilla and palatine process of maxilla.
- originates from: inferior oblique extraocular muscle and masseter muscle.
- contributes to morphology of: jaw skeleton.
Questions
Where is the maxilla?
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 maxilla connect to?
Part of: anatomical entity, anatomical structure, anatomical system, skeletal system, skeleton and skeleton of upper jaw, and 1 more.
Is the maxilla 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.