skeletal system

Anatomical system that is a multi-element, multi-tissue anatomical cluster that consists of the skeleton and the articular system. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the skeletal system is

Anatomical system that is a multi-element, multi-tissue anatomical cluster that consists of the skeleton and the articular system. The atlas records it as a system at the system scale in the human body.

Where the skeletal system is

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

What the skeletal system connects to

The atlas records 13 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of musculoskeletal system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the skeletal system. 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 skeleton system, set of all bones and joints and Skelettsystem. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001434, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: musculoskeletal system.
• A kind of: organ system subdivision.
• contains: articular system, skeleton, bone element, skeletal element, skeletal ligament and subdivision of skeletal system.
• contributes to morphology of: appendicular skeleton, axial skeleton plus cranial skeleton, cartilage tissue and skeletal joint.
• develops into: premaxilla.

Questions

Where is the skeletal system?

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

What does the skeletal system connect to?

Part of: musculoskeletal system.

Is the skeletal system 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.