tarsal region

Mesopodial segment of the pes, including the tarsal skeleton and associated tissues. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the tarsal region is

Mesopodial segment of the pes, including the tarsal skeleton and associated tissues. The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the human body.

Where the tarsal region is

It sits in the lower limb and foot. 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 region connects to

The atlas records 17 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of autopod region and pes.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the tarsal region. 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, ankle region, tarsal limb segment, articulatio talocruralis, hind basipodium and hind mesopodium, and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0004454, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: autopod region and pes.
• A kind of: limb segment and lower limb segment.
• contains: calcaneocuboid joint, calcaneus, distal tarsal bone, distal tarsal bone 1, distal tarsal bone 2 and distal tarsal bone 3, and 6 more.
• has skeleton: tarsal skeleton.

Questions

Where is the tarsal region?

It sits in the lower limb and foot. 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 region connect to?

Part of: autopod region and pes.

Is the tarsal region 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.