autopod region

Terminal segment of free limb, immediately distal to the zeugopod region. The fully developed autopod consists of the autopod skeleton plus associated structures such as integument, muscle tissue, vasculature etc. The autopod is divided into mesopodial, metapodiual, and acropodial segments. Examples: human hand, mouse paw, human foot. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the autopod region is

Terminal segment of free limb, immediately distal to the zeugopod region. The fully developed autopod consists of the autopod skeleton plus associated structures such as integument, muscle tissue, vasculature etc. The autopod is divided into mesopodial, metapodiual, and acropodial segments. Examples: human hand, mouse paw, human foot. The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the human body.

Where the autopod region is

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What the autopod region connects to

The atlas records 146 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of limb segment.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the autopod region. 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 autopod, autopodial limb segment, autopodial segment, autopodium, autopodium region and distal free limb segment, and 7 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002470, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: limb segment.
• contains: acropodial skeleton, calcaneus, carpal bone, carpal region, carpal skeleton and carpometacarpal joint, and 135 more.
• contributes to morphology of: limb and digit.
• subtype: manus and pes.

Questions

Where is the autopod region?

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What does the autopod region connect to?

A kind of: limb segment.

Is the autopod region 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.