tibial tuberosity

The tibial tuberosity is on the anterior side of a tibia and is where a patella ligament attaches. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the tibial tuberosity is

The tibial tuberosity is on the anterior side of a tibia and is where a patella ligament attaches. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the tibial tuberosity is

It sits in the lower limb, 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 tibial tuberosity connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. part of proximal epiphysis of tibia and skeletal element.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the tibial tuberosity. 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 fossa digitalis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:7500062, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: proximal epiphysis of tibia and skeletal element.
• A kind of: anatomical projection and tubercle.

Questions

Where is the tibial tuberosity?

It sits in the lower limb, 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 tibial tuberosity connect to?

Part of: proximal epiphysis of tibia and skeletal element.

Is the tibial tuberosity 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.