cuboid bone

A tarsal bone that is formed from distal tarsals 4 and 5. [WP,modified]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the cuboid bone is

A tarsal bone that is formed from distal tarsals 4 and 5. [WP,modified]. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the cuboid bone is

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

What the cuboid bone connects to

The atlas records 3 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. a kind of distal tarsal bone.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the cuboid bone. 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 cuboid, cuboideum, distal tarsal bones 4 and 5, foot distal tarsal bone 4 and 5, os cuboideum and os tarsale IV et V. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001455, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the cuboid bone?

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

What does the cuboid bone connect to?

A kind of: distal tarsal bone.

Is the cuboid bone 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.