gluteus maximus
The largest and most superficial of the three gluteal muscles [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the gluteus maximus is
The largest and most superficial of the three gluteal muscles [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the gluteus maximus is
It sits in the pelvis and trunk, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the gluteus maximus connects to
The atlas records 11 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of musculature of pelvic girdle.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the gluteus maximus. 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 maximus muscle, glutæus maximus, m.gluteus maximus, glutaeus maximus muscle, gluteus superficialis and musculus gluteus maximus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001370, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: musculature of pelvic girdle.
- A kind of: gluteal muscle and muscle of pelvis.
- antagonist of: iliacus muscle, psoas major muscle, psoas minor muscle and iliopsoas.
- originates from: fused sacrum and ilium.
- inserts into: femur.
- contains: skeletal muscle tissue of gluteus maximus.
Questions
Where is the gluteus maximus?
It sits in the pelvis and trunk, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the gluteus maximus connect to?
Part of: musculature of pelvic girdle.
Is the gluteus maximus 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.