manus

Distal segment of the fore limb, including carpal region, metacarpal region and digits. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the manus is

Distal segment of the fore limb, including carpal region, metacarpal region and digits. The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the human body.

Where the manus is

It sits in the upper limb and hand. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the manus connects to

The atlas records 68 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of forelimb.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the manus. 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 forelimb autopod, forelimb autopodium, hand, hand region, terminal segment of free upper limb and fore foot, and 6 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002398, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: forelimb.
• A kind of: autopod region and upper limb segment.
• contains: abductor pollicis brevis muscle, adductor pollicis muscle, carpal region, carpometacarpal joint, common palmar digital artery and common palmar digital vein, and 57 more.
• Develops from: embryonic handplate.
• has skeleton: skeleton of manus.

Questions

Where is the manus?

It sits in the upper limb and hand. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the manus connect to?

Part of: forelimb.

Is the manus 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.