teres minor muscle in dogs

A narrow, elongated muscle of the rotator cuff. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the teres minor muscle is

A narrow, elongated muscle of the rotator cuff. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the teres minor muscle is

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

What the teres minor muscle connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of shoulder.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: axillary nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as teres minor and musculus teres minor. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0010496, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: shoulder.
• A kind of: anatomical entity, muscle of shoulder, pectoral complex muscle and skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate.
• Innervated by: axillary nerve.
• inserts into: humerus.

Questions

Where is the teres minor muscle?

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

What does the teres minor muscle connect to?

Part of: shoulder.

Is the teres 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.