humerus

Paired endochondral long bone that extends between the pectoral girdle and the skeletal parts of the forelimb. [PHENOSCAPE:mah]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the humerus is

Paired endochondral long bone that extends between the pectoral girdle and the skeletal parts of the forelimb. [PHENOSCAPE:mah]. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the humerus is

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

What the humerus connects to

The atlas records 45 typed relationships for it, across 11 kinds of connection. part of anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex and appendicular skeleton, and 8 more.

Supply and innervation

Venous drainage: circumflex humeral vein.

Also called

Also recorded as humeri, humerus bone, mesomere 1 of pectoral appendage, proximal metapterygial mesomere of pectoral appendage and proximal metapterygial mesomere of pectoral fin. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000976, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex, appendicular skeleton, forelimb, forelimb skeleton and forelimb stylopod, and 5 more.
• A kind of: arm bone, bone element, endochondral bone, long bone and skeletal element.
• Attaches to: deltoid.
• contains: coronoid fossa of humerus, cortex of humerus, distal epiphysis of humerus, epicondyle of humerus, epiphysis of humerus and humerus diaphysis, and 5 more.
• inserts into: coracobrachialis muscle, latissimus dorsi muscle, pectoralis major, subscapularis muscle, teres major muscle and teres minor muscle.
• connects: elbow joint, glenohumeral joint, humeroradial joint and humeroulnar joint.
• originates from: brachialis muscle, brachioradialis and triceps brachii.
• composed of: bone tissue.

Questions

Where is the humerus?

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

What does the humerus connect to?

Part of: anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex, appendicular skeleton, forelimb, forelimb skeleton and forelimb stylopod, and 5 more.

Is the humerus 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.