tarsal bone

A bone that is part of the tarsal skeleton. Examples: calcaneus, talus, centralia. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the tarsal bone is

A bone that is part of the tarsal skeleton. Examples: calcaneus, talus, centralia. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the tarsal bone is

It sits in the lower limb and foot, within the skeletal system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the tarsal bone connects to

The atlas records 24 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex and appendicular skeleton, and 9 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the tarsal 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 ankle bone, bone of ankle, bone of tarsal skeleton, bone of tarsus, ossa tarsalia and ossa tarsi, and 4 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001447, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex, appendicular skeleton, autopod region, hindlimb and hindlimb skeleton, and 6 more.
• A kind of: bone element, endochondral bone, pes bone, short bone and skeletal element.
• Connected to: metatarsal bone.
• subtype: calcaneus, distal tarsal bone, navicular bone of pes and talus.
• connects: intertarsal joint and tarsometatarsal joint.

Questions

Where is the tarsal bone?

It sits in the lower limb and foot, within the skeletal system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the tarsal bone connect to?

Part of: anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex, appendicular skeleton, autopod region, hindlimb and hindlimb skeleton, and 6 more.

Is the tarsal 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.