gluteal muscle

On of the muscles that make up the buttocks: the gluteus maximus muscle, gluteus medius muscle and gluteus minimus muscle. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the gluteal muscle is

On of the muscles that make up the buttocks: the gluteus maximus muscle, gluteus medius muscle and gluteus minimus muscle. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the gluteal muscle is

It sits in the pelvis and trunk, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the gluteal muscle connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of buttock.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the gluteal muscle. 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 gluteus and gluteus muscle. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002000, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: buttock.
• A kind of: muscle of pelvic girdle.
• subtype: gluteus maximus, gluteus medius, gluteus minimus, obturator muscle, piriformis muscle and quadratus femoris, and 1 more.

Questions

Where is the gluteal muscle?

It sits in the pelvis and trunk, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the gluteal muscle connect to?

Part of: buttock.

Is the gluteal muscle 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.