gluteus minimus

The smallest of the three gluteal muscles, situated immediately beneath the gluteus medius. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the gluteus minimus is

The smallest of the three gluteal muscles, situated immediately beneath the gluteus medius. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the gluteus minimus is

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

What the gluteus minimus connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 5 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 minimus. 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 minimus muscle, glutaeus minimus, gluteus minimus, gluteus profundus, glutæus minimus and musculus gluteus minimus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0008521, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: musculature of pelvic girdle.
• A kind of: gluteal muscle.
• Attaches to: greater trochanter.
• inserts into: greater trochanter.
• originates from: ilium.

Questions

Where is the gluteus minimus?

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

What does the gluteus minimus connect to?

Part of: musculature of pelvic girdle.

Is the gluteus minimus 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.