trunk in dogs

Organism subdivision which is the part of the body posterior to the cervical region (or head, when cervical region not present) and anterior to the caudal region. Includes the sacrum when present. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the trunk is

Organism subdivision which is the part of the body posterior to the cervical region (or head, when cervical region not present) and anterior to the caudal region. Includes the sacrum when present. The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the dog.

Where the trunk is

It sits in the trunk. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the trunk connects to

The atlas records 26 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. a kind of organism subdivision.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the trunk. 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 thoracolumbar region, torso, trunk region and Rumpf. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002100, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the trunk?

It sits in the trunk. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the trunk connect to?

A kind of: organism subdivision.

Is the trunk 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.