tibia
The major preaxial endochondral bone in the posterior zeugopod[Phenoscape]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the tibia is
The major preaxial endochondral bone in the posterior zeugopod[Phenoscape]. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the tibia is
It sits in the lower limb, within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the tibia connects to
The atlas records 47 typed relationships for it, across 9 kinds of connection. part of anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex and appendicular skeleton, and 8 more.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the tibia. 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 shankbone and shinbone. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000979, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex, appendicular skeleton, hindlimb, hindlimb skeleton and hindlimb zeugopod, and 5 more.
- A kind of: bone element, endochondral bone, leg bone, long bone, skeletal element and subdivision of skeleton.
- Connected to: talus.
- Attaches to: anterior cruciate ligament of knee joint.
- contains: anterolateral tubercle of tibia, diaphysis of tibia, distal epiphysis of tibia, epiphysis of tibia, fibular facet of tibia and fibular notch of tibia, and 7 more.
- connects: femorotibial joint, inferior tibiofibular joint, knee joint, medial ligament of ankle joint, patellar ligament and tibiofibular joint.
- originates from: extensor digitorum longus, flexor digitorum longus, popliteus muscle and tibialis posterior.
- inserts into: gracilis, muscle of posterior compartment of hindlimb stylopod, pes anserinus of tibia and quadriceps femoris.
Questions
Where is the tibia?
It sits in the lower limb, within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the tibia connect to?
Part of: anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex, appendicular skeleton, hindlimb, hindlimb skeleton and hindlimb zeugopod, and 5 more.
Is the tibia 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.