tibialis anterior in dogs

A muscle that originates in the upper two-thirds of the lateral surface of the tibia and inserts into the medial cuneiform and first metatarsal bones of the foot. Its acts to invert the foot. It is situated on the lateral side of the tibia; it is thick and fleshy above, tendinous below. This muscle overlaps the anterior tibial vessels and deep peroneal nerve in the upper part of the leg. [WP,unvetted]. The M. tibialis cranialis is a muscle that flexes the tarsometatarsus. It originates on the craniodistal aspect of the femur and proximal tibiotarsus and inserts on the cranial surface of the tarsometarsus[EvoWiki]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the tibialis anterior is

A muscle that originates in the upper two-thirds of the lateral surface of the tibia and inserts into the medial cuneiform and first metatarsal bones of the foot. Its acts to invert the foot. It is situated on the lateral side of the tibia; it is thick and fleshy above, tendinous below. This muscle overlaps the anterior tibial vessels and deep peroneal nerve in the upper part of the leg. [WP,unvetted]. The M. tibialis cranialis is a muscle that flexes the tarsometatarsus. It originates on the craniodistal aspect of the femur and proximal tibiotarsus and inserts on the cranial surface of the tarsometarsus[EvoWiki]. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the tibialis anterior is

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

What the tibialis anterior connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. a kind of tibialis.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the tibialis anterior. 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 tibialis anterior muscle, tibialis cranialis, tibilais cranialis, anterior tibialis, ibialis anticus and musculus tibialis anterior. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001385, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: tibialis.
• antagonist of: gastrocnemius, tibialis posterior and fibularis longus.
• inserts into: metatarsal bone.

Questions

Where is the tibialis anterior?

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

What does the tibialis anterior connect to?

A kind of: tibialis.

Is the tibialis anterior 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.