femur

Endochondral longbone connecting the pelvic girdle with posterior zeugopodium skeleton.[VSAO, modified]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the femur is

Endochondral longbone connecting the pelvic girdle with posterior zeugopodium skeleton.[VSAO, modified]. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the femur is

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

What the femur connects to

The atlas records 46 typed relationships for it, across 10 kinds of connection. part of anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex and appendicular skeleton, and 7 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the femur. 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 thigh bone, femoral bone, mesomere 1 of pevlic appendage, os femorale, os femoris and os longissimum, and 2 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000981, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex, appendicular skeleton, hindlimb, hindlimb skeleton and hindlimb stylopod, and 4 more.
• A kind of: bone element, bone of hip region, endochondral bone, leg bone, long bone and skeletal element.
• Connected to: patella.
• Attaches to: anterior cruciate ligament of knee joint.
• contains: diaphysis of femur, distal epiphysis of femur, distal metaphysis of femur, epiphysis of femur, gluteal tuberosity of femur and intercondylar notch of femur, and 7 more.
• inserts into: adductor longus, adductor magnus, gluteus maximus, obturator externus and pectineus muscle.
• originates from: biceps femoris, plantaris, vastus intermedius and vastus medialis.
• connects: femorotibial joint, hip joint, knee joint and patellofemoral joint.

Questions

Where is the femur?

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

What does the femur connect to?

Part of: anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex, appendicular skeleton, hindlimb, hindlimb skeleton and hindlimb stylopod, and 4 more.

Is the femur 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.