psoas minor muscle in dogs

The psoas minor is a long, slender skeletal muscle that, when present, is placed in front of the psoas major muscle. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the psoas minor muscle is

The psoas minor is a long, slender skeletal muscle that, when present, is placed in front of the psoas major muscle. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the psoas minor muscle is

It sits within the muscular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the psoas minor muscle connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of psoas muscle.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the psoas minor muscle. 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 psoas minor and m. psoas minor. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001372, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: psoas muscle.
• inserts into: pubis.
• originates from: bony vertebral centrum.
• antagonist of: gluteus maximus.

Questions

Where is the psoas minor muscle?

It sits within the muscular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the psoas minor muscle connect to?

A kind of: psoas muscle.

Is the psoas minor muscle 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.