anconeus muscle

A small muscle on the posterior aspect of the elbow joint. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the anconeus muscle is

A small muscle on the posterior aspect of the elbow joint. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the anconeus muscle is

It sits in the upper limb, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the anconeus muscle connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of forelimb stylopod muscle.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: radial nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as anconeus, m. anconeus, musculus anconaeus, musculus anconeus and aconeus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002989, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: forelimb stylopod muscle.
• Innervated by: radial nerve.
• inserts into: olecranon.
• originates from: ectepicondyle of humerus.

Questions

Where is the anconeus muscle?

It sits in the upper limb, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the anconeus muscle connect to?

A kind of: forelimb stylopod muscle.

Is the anconeus 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.