ankle joint
A joint that connects the hindlimb autopod and zeugopod skeletons. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the ankle joint is
A joint that connects the hindlimb autopod and zeugopod skeletons. The atlas records it as a joint at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the ankle joint is
It sits in the lower limb, within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the ankle joint connects to
The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of hindlimb.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the ankle joint. 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 gambrel, hock, hock joint, talotibial joint, mortise joint and talocrural articulation, and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001488, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: hindlimb.
- A kind of: limb joint and synovial limb joint.
- contains: calcaneofibular ligament, medial ligament of ankle joint and talofibular ligament.
- connects: skeleton of pes.
- overlaps: pes.
- subtype: calcaneocuboid joint.
Questions
Where is the ankle joint?
It sits in the lower limb, within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the ankle joint connect to?
Part of: hindlimb.
Is the ankle joint 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.