ossicle

Skeletal element that is often isolated, small, and variable in composition. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the ossicle is

Skeletal element that is often isolated, small, and variable in composition. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the ossicle is

It sits within the skeletal system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the ossicle connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. a kind of skeletal element.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the ossicle. 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.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0010911, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: skeletal element.
• subtype: patella, sesamoid bone, sesamoid bone of gastrocnemius, sesamoid bone of manus, sesamoid bone of pes and sesamoid cartilage.

Questions

Where is the ossicle?

It sits within the skeletal system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the ossicle connect to?

A kind of: skeletal element.

Is the ossicle 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.