serratus ventralis
The serratus ventralis is a muscle that originates on the surface of the upper eight or nine ribs at the side of the chest and inserts along the entire anterior length of the medial border of the scapula. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the serratus ventralis is
The serratus ventralis is a muscle that originates on the surface of the upper eight or nine ribs at the side of the chest and inserts along the entire anterior length of the medial border of the scapula. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the serratus ventralis is
It sits within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the serratus ventralis connects to
The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. a kind of muscle of shoulder and skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate.
Supply and innervation
Innervation: thoracic nerve.
Also called
Also recorded as Boxer's muscle, serratus anterior, serratus anterior muscle, serratus ventralis muscle, musculus serratus anterior and serratus lateralis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001125, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- A kind of: muscle of shoulder and skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate.
- antagonist of: trapezius muscle.
- Innervated by: thoracic nerve.
- inserts into: scapula.
- originates from: rib.
Questions
Where is the serratus ventralis?
It sits within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the serratus ventralis connect to?
A kind of: muscle of shoulder and skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate.
Is the serratus ventralis 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.