muscle of leg in dogs

A muscle that is part of the region of the hindlimb between the pelvis and ankle. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the muscle of leg is

A muscle that is part of the region of the hindlimb between the pelvis and ankle. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the muscle of leg is

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

What the muscle of leg connects to

The atlas records 17 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of anatomical structure, appendage and appendage girdle complex, and 5 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the muscle of leg. 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 leg muscle, leg muscle organ, leg skeletal muscle, leg skeletal muscle tissue, muscle of hindlimb zeugopod or stylopod and muscle of thigh or crus, and 4 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001383, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical structure, appendage, appendage girdle complex, hindlimb, leg and musculature, and 2 more.
• A kind of: limb muscle, musculature of lower limb and pelvic complex muscle.
• subtype: flexor digitorum longus, flexor hallucis longus, hindlimb stylopod muscle, hindlimb zeugopod muscle and popliteus muscle.
• connects: calcaneal tendon.

Questions

Where is the muscle of leg?

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

What does the muscle of leg connect to?

Part of: anatomical structure, appendage, appendage girdle complex, hindlimb, leg and musculature, and 2 more.

Is the muscle of leg 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.