semitendinosus

The semitendinosus is a muscle in the back of the thigh; it is one of the hamstrings. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the semitendinosus is

The semitendinosus is a muscle in the back of the thigh; it is one of the hamstrings. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the semitendinosus is

It sits in the lower limb, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the semitendinosus connects to

The atlas records 3 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. a kind of muscle of posterior compartment of hindlimb stylopod.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the semitendinosus. 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 semitendinosus muscle and musculus semitendinosus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001375, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: muscle of posterior compartment of hindlimb stylopod.
• antagonist of: quadriceps femoris.
• inserts into: pes anserinus of tibia.

Questions

Where is the semitendinosus?

It sits in the lower limb, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the semitendinosus connect to?

A kind of: muscle of posterior compartment of hindlimb stylopod.

Is the semitendinosus 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.