deltoid
A muscle of shoulder which attaches to the scapula, clavicle and humerus.[FMA,generalized]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the deltoid is
A muscle of shoulder which attaches to the scapula, clavicle and humerus.[FMA,generalized]. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the deltoid is
It sits within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the deltoid connects to
The atlas records 15 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. a kind of muscle of shoulder, skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate and skeletal muscle tissue.
Supply and innervation
Innervation: axillary nerve.
Also called
Also recorded as deltoid muscle, m. deltoideus, musculus deltoideus, common shoulder muscle, deltoideus and deltoideus muscle. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001476, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- A kind of: muscle of shoulder, skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate and skeletal muscle tissue.
- Attaches to: clavicle bone, deltopectoral crest, humerus and scapula.
- originates from: acromion, clavicle bone and scapula.
- antagonist of: latissimus dorsi muscle.
- composed of: striated muscle tissue.
- Innervated by: axillary nerve.
- inserts into: deltopectoral crest.
- contains: skeletal muscle tissue of deltoid.
Questions
Where is the deltoid?
It sits within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the deltoid connect to?
A kind of: muscle of shoulder, skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate and skeletal muscle tissue.
Is the deltoid 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.