brachioradialis
Brachioradialis is a muscle of the forearm that acts to flex the forearm at the elbow. It is also capable of both pronation and supination, depending on the position of the forearm. It is attached to the distal styloid process of the radius by way of the brachioradialis tendon, and to the lateral supracondylar ridge of the humerus. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the brachioradialis is
Brachioradialis is a muscle of the forearm that acts to flex the forearm at the elbow. It is also capable of both pronation and supination, depending on the position of the forearm. It is attached to the distal styloid process of the radius by way of the brachioradialis tendon, and to the lateral supracondylar ridge of the humerus. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the brachioradialis is
It sits in the upper limb, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the brachioradialis connects to
The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of arm.
Supply and innervation
Innervation: radial nerve.
Also called
Also recorded as brachioradialis muscle and musculus brachioradialis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0011011, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: arm.
- A kind of: muscle of arm and muscle of shoulder.
- Innervated by: radial nerve.
- inserts into: radius bone.
- originates from: humerus.
Questions
Where is the brachioradialis?
It sits in the upper limb, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the brachioradialis connect to?
Part of: arm.
Is the brachioradialis 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.