quadriceps femoris
One of the muscles belong to the group consisting of the rectus femoris and the three heads of the vastus (lateralis, medialis, intermedius). Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the quadriceps femoris is
One of the muscles belong to the group consisting of the rectus femoris and the three heads of the vastus (lateralis, medialis, intermedius). The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the quadriceps femoris is
It sits in the lower limb, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the quadriceps femoris connects to
The atlas records 17 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of hindlimb.
Supply and innervation
Innervation: femoral nerve.
Also called
Also recorded as quadriceps, quadriceps femoris muscle, musculus quadriceps femoris, quadricep muscle, quadriceps muscle and quadriceps muscle of the thigh, and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001377, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: hindlimb.
- A kind of: hindlimb muscle.
- contains: rectus femoris, skeletal muscle tissue of quadriceps femoris, tendon of quadriceps femoris, vastus intermedius, vastus lateralis and vastus medialis.
- subtype: rectus femoris, vastus intermedius, vastus lateralis and vastus medialis.
- antagonist of: biceps femoris and semitendinosus.
- Innervated by: femoral nerve.
- inserts into: tibia.
- originates from: rectus femoris.
Questions
Where is the quadriceps femoris?
It sits in the lower limb, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the quadriceps femoris connect to?
Part of: hindlimb.
Is the quadriceps femoris 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.