ligament

Dense regular connective tissue connecting two or more adjacent skeletal elements or supporting an organ. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the ligament is

Dense regular connective tissue connecting two or more adjacent skeletal elements or supporting an organ. The atlas records it as a ligament at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the ligament is

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What the ligament connects to

The atlas records 11 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. a kind of organ.

Supply and innervation

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

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000211, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: organ.
• subtype: anular ligament of radius, arcuate ligament, cruciate ligament of atlas, inguinal ligament, ligamentum flavum and nonskeletal ligament, and 3 more.
• contains: connective tissue.

Questions

Where is the ligament?

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What does the ligament connect to?

A kind of: organ.

Is the ligament 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.