skeleton

Anatomical cluster that consists of all the skeletal elements (eg., bone, cartilage, and teeth) of the body. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the skeleton is

Anatomical cluster that consists of all the skeletal elements (eg., bone, cartilage, and teeth) of the body. The atlas records it as an anatomical structure at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the skeleton is

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

What the skeleton connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of skeletal system.

Supply and innervation

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

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0004288, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: skeletal system.
• A kind of: material anatomical entity.
• contains: axial skeleton plus cranial skeleton and subdivision of skeleton.
• develops into: premaxilla.

Questions

Where is the skeleton?

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

What does the skeleton connect to?

Part of: skeletal system.

Is the skeleton 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.