serratus ventralis in dogs

The serratus ventralis is a muscle that originates on the surface of the upper eight or nine ribs at the side of the chest and inserts along the entire anterior length of the medial border of the scapula. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the serratus ventralis is

The serratus ventralis is a muscle that originates on the surface of the upper eight or nine ribs at the side of the chest and inserts along the entire anterior length of the medial border of the scapula. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the serratus ventralis is

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

What the serratus ventralis connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of muscle of shoulder and skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the serratus ventralis. 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 Boxer's muscle, serratus anterior, serratus anterior muscle, serratus ventralis muscle, musculus serratus anterior and serratus lateralis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001125, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: muscle of shoulder and skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate.
• antagonist of: trapezius muscle and rhomboid.
• inserts into: scapula.
• originates from: rib.

Questions

Where is the serratus ventralis?

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

What does the serratus ventralis connect to?

A kind of: muscle of shoulder and skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate.

Is the serratus ventralis 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.