abdominal external oblique muscle
The lateral abdominal wall muscle that is the most superficial, immediately superficial to the internal oblique. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the abdominal external oblique muscle is
The lateral abdominal wall muscle that is the most superficial, immediately superficial to the internal oblique. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the abdominal external oblique muscle is
It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the abdominal external oblique muscle connects to
The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of anterior abdominal wall.
Supply and innervation
Innervation: intercostal nerve.
Also called
Also recorded as abdominal external oblique muscle, external abdominal oblique muscle, external oblique, external oblique muscle, obliquus externus abdominis and external abdominal oblique, and 8 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0005442, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: anterior abdominal wall.
- A kind of: anterior abdominal wall muscle.
- Innervated by: intercostal nerve.
- inserts into: inguinal ligament.
- originates from: rib.
- superficial to: abdominal internal oblique muscle.
- contains: inguinal ligament.
Questions
Where is the abdominal external oblique muscle?
It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the abdominal external oblique muscle connect to?
Part of: anterior abdominal wall.
Is the abdominal external oblique muscle the same in other species?
Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.