scapula

Endochondral bone that is dorsoventrally compressed and provides attachment site for muscles of the pectoral appendage. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the scapula is

Endochondral bone that is dorsoventrally compressed and provides attachment site for muscles of the pectoral appendage. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the scapula is

It sits within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the scapula connects to

The atlas records 30 typed relationships for it, across 9 kinds of connection. part of pectoral girdle skeleton.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the scapula. 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 scapulae, shoulder blade, scapula bone and scapulas. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0006849, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: pectoral girdle skeleton.
• A kind of: endochondral bone, pectoral girdle bone and skeletal element.
• Attaches to: deltoid and levator scapulae muscle.
• Adjacent to: glenoid fossa.
• contains: acromial process of scapula, acromion, angle of scapula, border of scapula, coracoid process of scapula and infraglenoid tubercle of scapula, and 8 more.
• originates from: deltoid, infraspinatus muscle, latissimus dorsi muscle, subscapularis muscle, supraspinatus muscle and triceps brachii.
• composed of: bone tissue.
• connects: glenohumeral joint.

Questions

Where is the scapula?

It sits within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the scapula connect to?

Part of: pectoral girdle skeleton.

Is the scapula 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.