sesamoid bone

A sesamoid element that is composed of bone tissue. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the sesamoid bone is

A sesamoid element that is composed of bone tissue. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the sesamoid bone is

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

What the sesamoid bone connects to

The atlas records 8 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of ossicle and short bone.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the sesamoid bone. 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 sesamoid and ossa sesamoidea. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001479, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: ossicle and short bone.
• subtype: patella, sesamoid bone of gastrocnemius, sesamoid bone of manus and sesamoid bone of pes.
• composed of: bone tissue.
• inserts into: flexor hallucis brevis muscle.

Questions

Where is the sesamoid bone?

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

What does the sesamoid bone connect to?

A kind of: ossicle and short bone.

Is the sesamoid bone 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.