biceps femoris

The biceps femoris is a muscle of the posterior (the back) thigh. As its name implies, it has two parts, one of which (the long head) forms part of the hamstrings muscle group. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the biceps femoris is

The biceps femoris is a muscle of the posterior (the back) thigh. As its name implies, it has two parts, one of which (the long head) forms part of the hamstrings muscle group. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the biceps femoris is

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

What the biceps femoris connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. a kind of muscle of posterior compartment of hindlimb stylopod.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: tibial nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as biceps femoris muscle and musculus biceps femoris. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001374, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: muscle of posterior compartment of hindlimb stylopod.
• antagonist of: quadriceps femoris.
• Innervated by: tibial nerve.
• inserts into: proximal epiphysis of fibula.
• originates from: femur.

Questions

Where is the biceps femoris?

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

What does the biceps femoris connect to?

A kind of: muscle of posterior compartment of hindlimb stylopod.

Is the biceps femoris 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.