knee

A segment of the hindlimb that corresponds to the joint connecting a hindlimb stylopod and zeugopod. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the knee is

A segment of the hindlimb that corresponds to the joint connecting a hindlimb stylopod and zeugopod. The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the human body.

Where the knee is

It sits in the lower limb. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the knee connects to

The atlas records 8 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of leg.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the knee. 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 knee region. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001465, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: leg.
• A kind of: lower limb segment.
• contains: infrapatellar fat pad, knee joint, patella, skin of knee and vein of genicular venous plexus.
• overlaps: popliteal vein.

Questions

Where is the knee?

It sits in the lower limb. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the knee connect to?

Part of: leg.

Is the knee 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.