forelimb
A (free) limb that is connected to a pectoral girdle. The extent of this structure includes autopod, stylopod and zeugopod regions when present, but excludes the pectoral girdle and its parts. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the forelimb is
A (free) limb that is connected to a pectoral girdle. The extent of this structure includes autopod, stylopod and zeugopod regions when present, but excludes the pectoral girdle and its parts. The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the human body.
Where the forelimb is
It sits in the upper limb. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.
What the forelimb connects to
The atlas records 110 typed relationships for it, across 10 kinds of connection. part of appendage girdle complex and pectoral complex.
Supply and innervation
Venous drainage: basilic vein. Innervation: brachial nerve plexus and musculocutaneous nerve.
Also called
Also recorded as anteriormost limb, fore limb, forelimb, free part of upper limb, free upper limb and membrum superius, and 6 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002102, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: appendage girdle complex and pectoral complex.
- A kind of: anatomical structure, limb and organism subdivision.
- Connected to: pectoral girdle region.
- contains: abductor pollicis brevis muscle, abductor pollicis longus, arm, arm bone, axillary nerve and basilic vein, and 90 more.
- Innervated by: brachial nerve plexus and musculocutaneous nerve.
- subtype: left forelimb and right forelimb.
- Develops from: forelimb bud.
- has skeleton: forelimb skeleton.
Questions
Where is the forelimb?
It sits in the upper limb. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.
What does the forelimb connect to?
Part of: appendage girdle complex and pectoral complex.
Is the forelimb 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.