teres major muscle

Teres major is a muscle of the upper limb and one of six scapulohumeral muscles. It is a thick but somewhat flattened muscle. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the teres major muscle is

Teres major is a muscle of the upper limb and one of six scapulohumeral muscles. It is a thick but somewhat flattened muscle. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the teres major muscle is

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

What the teres major muscle connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of muscle of shoulder and skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the teres major muscle. 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 teres major and musculus teres major. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001478, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: muscle of shoulder and skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate.
• inserts into: humerus.
• originates from: inferior angle of scapula.
• contains: skeletal muscle tissue of teres major.

Questions

Where is the teres major muscle?

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

What does the teres major muscle connect to?

A kind of: muscle of shoulder and skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate.

Is the teres major 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.