elbow joint

A joint that connects the forelimb zeugopod and stylopod skeletons[Obol]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the elbow joint is

A joint that connects the forelimb zeugopod and stylopod skeletons[Obol]. The atlas records it as a joint at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the elbow joint is

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

What the elbow joint connects to

The atlas records 12 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of elbow and forelimb.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the elbow joint. 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 articulatio cubiti, cubital region joint, joint of cubital region and joint of elbow. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001490, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: elbow and forelimb.
• A kind of: limb joint, synovial joint and synovial limb joint.
• contains: anular ligament of radius, head of radius, humeroradial joint, humeroulnar joint and joint space of elbow.
• connects: forelimb zeugopod skeleton and humerus.

Questions

Where is the elbow joint?

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

What does the elbow joint connect to?

Part of: elbow and forelimb.

Is the elbow joint 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.