glenohumeral joint

The glenohumeral joint, commonly known as the shoulder joint, is a multiaxial synovial ball and socket joint and involves articulation between the glenoid fossa of the scapula (shoulder blade) and the head of the humerus (upper arm bone). [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the glenohumeral joint is

The glenohumeral joint, commonly known as the shoulder joint, is a multiaxial synovial ball and socket joint and involves articulation between the glenoid fossa of the scapula (shoulder blade) and the head of the humerus (upper arm bone). [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a joint at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the glenohumeral joint is

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

What the glenohumeral joint connects to

The atlas records 14 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of pectoral girdle skeleton and shoulder.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the glenohumeral 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 joint of shoulder, shoulder joint, articulatio humeri, humeral joint and humeroscapular joint. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001470, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: pectoral girdle skeleton and shoulder.
• A kind of: skeletal element, skeletal joint, synovial joint of pectoral girdle and synovial limb joint.
• Adjacent to: glenoid fossa.
• connects: humerus and scapula.
• contains: articular capsule of glenohumeral joint and glenoid labrum of scapula.
• overlaps: humerus and proximal head of humerus.
• surrounded by: articular capsule of glenohumeral joint.

Questions

Where is the glenohumeral joint?

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

What does the glenohumeral joint connect to?

Part of: pectoral girdle skeleton and shoulder.

Is the glenohumeral 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.