cutaneous appendage
Anatomical projection that protrudes from the skin. Examples: hair, nail, feather, claw, hoof, horn, wattle, spur, beak, antler, bristle and some scales. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the cutaneous appendage is
Anatomical projection that protrudes from the skin. Examples: hair, nail, feather, claw, hoof, horn, wattle, spur, beak, antler, bristle and some scales. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the cutaneous appendage is
It sits within the integumentary system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What the cutaneous appendage connects to
The atlas records 8 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of integumental system.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the cutaneous appendage. 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 skin appendage, epidermal appendage and epidermal growth. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000021, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: integumental system.
- A kind of: anatomical projection and organ part.
- Attaches to: skin of body.
- subtype: hair matrix, hair root, hair shaft and strand of hair.
Questions
Where is the cutaneous appendage?
It sits within the integumentary system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What does the cutaneous appendage connect to?
Part of: integumental system.
Is the cutaneous appendage 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.