fibula
The major postaxial endochondral bone in the posterior zeugopod[Phenoscape]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the fibula is
The major postaxial endochondral bone in the posterior zeugopod[Phenoscape]. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the fibula is
It sits in the lower limb, within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the fibula connects to
The atlas records 35 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex and appendicular skeleton, and 8 more.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the fibula. 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.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001446, 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 zeugopod, and 5 more.
- A kind of: bone element, endochondral bone, leg bone, long bone, skeletal element and subdivision of skeleton.
- originates from: extensor digitorum longus, fibularis brevis, fibularis longus, fibularis tertius, flexor hallucis longus and soleus muscle, and 1 more.
- contains: diaphysis of fibula, distal epiphysis of fibula, epiphysis of fibula, metaphysis of fibula, neck of fibula and proximal epiphysis of fibula.
- connects: calcaneofibular ligament, talofibular ligament and tibiofibular joint.
- composed of: bone tissue.
- inserts into: muscle of posterior compartment of hindlimb stylopod.
Questions
Where is the fibula?
It sits in the lower limb, within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the fibula connect to?
Part of: anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex, appendicular skeleton, hindlimb, hindlimb skeleton and hindlimb zeugopod, and 5 more.
Is the fibula 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.