soleus muscle

A deep muscle of the triceps surae group, in the superficial posterior compartment of the leg. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the soleus muscle is

A deep muscle of the triceps surae group, in the superficial posterior compartment of the leg. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the soleus muscle is

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

What the soleus muscle connects to

The atlas records 8 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of triceps surae.

Supply and innervation

Venous drainage: soleal vein. Innervation: tibial nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as soleus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001389, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: triceps surae.
• A kind of: hindlimb zeugopod muscle.
• antagonist of: tibialis anterior.
• contributes to morphology of: limb muscle.
• Innervated by: tibial nerve.
• inserts into: calcaneal tendon.
• originates from: fibula.
• Drained by: soleal vein.

Questions

Where is the soleus muscle?

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

What does the soleus muscle connect to?

Part of: triceps surae.

Is the soleus muscle 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.