obturator foramen

The obturator foramen is the hole created by the ischium and pubis bones of the pelvis through which nerves and muscles pass. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the obturator foramen is

The obturator foramen is the hole created by the ischium and pubis bones of the pelvis through which nerves and muscles pass. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the obturator foramen is

It sits in the pelvis and trunk, within the skeletal system. 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 obturator foramen connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of pelvic girdle skeleton.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the obturator foramen. 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 foramen obturatorium and foramen obturatum. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0006803, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Part of: pelvic girdle skeleton.
A kind of: anatomical conduit.
transports: obturator artery and obturator nerve.
originates from: obturator externus.

Questions

Where is the obturator foramen?

What does the obturator foramen connect to?

Part of: pelvic girdle skeleton.

Is the obturator foramen 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.