jugal bone

The quadrilateral bone that forms the prominence of the cheek. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the jugal bone is

The quadrilateral bone that forms the prominence of the cheek. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the jugal bone is

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

What the jugal bone connects to

The atlas records 25 typed relationships for it, across 9 kinds of connection. part of axial skeletal system, cheek and craniocervical region, and 6 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the jugal bone. 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 cheek bone, malar bone, orbital bone, os zygomaticum, zygomatic bone and jugal, and 5 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001683, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: axial skeletal system, cheek, craniocervical region, facial skeleton, head and material anatomical entity, and 3 more.
• A kind of: anatomical entity, anatomical structure, bone element, irregular bone, skeletal element and subdivision of skeletal system.
• Connected to: zygomatic process of frontal bone.
• Attaches to: zygomaticus major muscle.
• contains: frontal process of zygomatic bone, temporal process of zygomatic bone and zygomaticofacial foramen of zygomatic bone.
• connects: sphenozygomatic suture and zygomaticomaxillary suture.
• contributes to morphology of: facial skeleton.
• overlaps: orbit of skull.

Questions

Where is the jugal bone?

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

What does the jugal bone connect to?

Part of: axial skeletal system, cheek, craniocervical region, facial skeleton, head and material anatomical entity, and 3 more.

Is the jugal bone 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.