patella in dogs

A large sesamoid bone found in the distal femur/proximal tibial region of the hindlimb of tetrapods. The patella is the attachment site for proximal hindlimb tendons.[PHENOSCAPE:ad]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the patella is

A large sesamoid bone found in the distal femur/proximal tibial region of the hindlimb of tetrapods. The patella is the attachment site for proximal hindlimb tendons.[PHENOSCAPE:ad]. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the patella is

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

What the patella connects to

The atlas records 11 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of appendicular skeleton, hindlimb skeleton and knee.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the patella. 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 knee bone, knee cap and patella. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002446, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: appendicular skeleton, hindlimb skeleton and knee.
• A kind of: leg bone, sesamoid bone and skeletal element.
• Connected to: femur.
• Adjacent to: knee joint.
• connects: knee joint and stifle joint.
• inserts into: vastus medialis.

Questions

Where is the patella?

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

What does the patella connect to?

Part of: appendicular skeleton, hindlimb skeleton and knee.

Is the patella 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.