endochondral bone

Replacement bone that forms within cartilage. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the endochondral bone is

Replacement bone that forms within cartilage. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the endochondral bone is

It sits within the skeletal system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the endochondral bone connects to

The atlas records 57 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. a kind of bone element and skeletal element.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the endochondral 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 ossified chondrogenic bone, cartilaginous bone and endochondral bones. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002513, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: bone element and skeletal element.
• subtype: alisphenoid bone, arm bone, basioccipital bone, basisphenoid bone, body of sphenoid and calcaneus, and 48 more.
• Develops from: cartilage element.

Questions

Where is the endochondral bone?

It sits within the skeletal system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the endochondral bone connect to?

A kind of: bone element and skeletal element.

Is the endochondral 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.