trochanter in dogs

A bony prominence near the extremity of the femur that normally serves as attachment points for hip and thigh muscles[MP,modified]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the trochanter is

A bony prominence near the extremity of the femur that normally serves as attachment points for hip and thigh muscles[MP,modified]. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the trochanter is

It sits in the hindlimb, within the skeletal system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the trochanter connects to

The atlas records 8 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of bone element, femur and organ.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the trochanter. 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 femoral trochanter and trochanter of femur. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000980, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Part of: bone element, femur and organ.
A kind of: anatomical structure and zone of long bone.
subtype: greater trochanter and lesser trochanter.
contributes to morphology of: femur.

Questions

Where is the trochanter?

What does the trochanter connect to?

Part of: bone element, femur and organ.

Is the trochanter 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.