leg

The portion of the hindlimb that contains both the stylopod and zeugopod. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the leg is

The portion of the hindlimb that contains both the stylopod and zeugopod. The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the human body.

Where the leg is

It sits in the lower limb. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the leg connects to

The atlas records 33 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of hindlimb.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the leg. 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 tetrapod leg and lower extremity. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000978, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: hindlimb.
• A kind of: lower limb segment and organism subdivision.
• contains: accessory saphenous vein, anterior tibial vein, calcaneal tendon, common fibular nerve, deep fibular nerve and fascia lata, and 23 more.
• overlaps: sciatic nerve.

Questions

Where is the leg?

It sits in the lower limb. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the leg connect to?

Part of: hindlimb.

Is the leg 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.