neck of femur in dogs

The femur neck or neck of the femur is a flattened pyramidal process of bone, connecting the femoral head with the femoral shaft, and forming with the latter a wide angle opening medialward. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the neck of femur is

The femur neck or neck of the femur is a flattened pyramidal process of bone, connecting the femoral head with the femoral shaft, and forming with the latter a wide angle opening medialward. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the neck of femur is

It sits in the hindlimb, 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 neck of femur connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of bone element, femur and organ, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: medial circumflex femoral artery.

Also called

Also recorded as femoral neck, collum femoris, femur neck and neck of the femur. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0007119, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Part of: bone element, femur, organ and proximal metaphysis of femur.
A kind of: anatomical structure and zone of long bone.
Supplied by: medial circumflex femoral artery.

Questions

Where is the neck of femur?

What does the neck of femur connect to?

Part of: bone element, femur, organ and proximal metaphysis of femur.

Is the neck of femur 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.