hip joint

A synovial joint that connects the femur to the acetbulum of the innominate bone. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the hip joint is

A synovial joint that connects the femur to the acetbulum of the innominate bone. The atlas records it as a joint at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the hip joint is

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

What the hip joint connects to

The atlas records 10 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of hip.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the hip 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 articulatio coxofemoralis, femoro-iliac joint and coxal articulation. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001486, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: hip.
• A kind of: synovial joint of pelvic girdle.
• contains: acetabular labrum, acetabular part of hip bone, articular capsule of hip joint, ligament of hip joint and synovial cavity of hip joint.
• connects: acetabular part of hip bone and femur.
• surrounded by: articular capsule of hip joint.

Questions

Where is the hip joint?

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

What does the hip joint connect to?

Part of: hip.

Is the hip 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.