tibialis anterior

A muscle that originates in the upper two-thirds of the lateral surface of the tibia and inserts into the medial cuneiform and first metatarsal bones of the foot. Its acts to invert the foot. It is situated on the lateral side of the tibia; it is thick and fleshy above, tendinous below. This muscle overlaps the anterior tibial vessels and deep peroneal nerve in the upper part of the leg. [WP,unvetted]. The M. tibialis cranialis is a muscle that flexes the tarsometatarsus. It originates on the craniodistal aspect of the femur and proximal tibiotarsus and inserts on the cranial surface of the tarsometarsus[EvoWiki]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the tibialis anterior is

A muscle that originates in the upper two-thirds of the lateral surface of the tibia and inserts into the medial cuneiform and first metatarsal bones of the foot. Its acts to invert the foot. It is situated on the lateral side of the tibia; it is thick and fleshy above, tendinous below. This muscle overlaps the anterior tibial vessels and deep peroneal nerve in the upper part of the leg. [WP,unvetted]. The M. tibialis cranialis is a muscle that flexes the tarsometatarsus. It originates on the craniodistal aspect of the femur and proximal tibiotarsus and inserts on the cranial surface of the tarsometarsus[EvoWiki]. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the tibialis anterior is

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

What the tibialis anterior connects to

The atlas records 12 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of hindlimb zeugopod.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: deep fibular nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as tibialis anterior muscle, tibialis cranialis, tibilais cranialis, anterior tibialis, ibialis anticus and musculus tibialis anterior. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001385, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: hindlimb zeugopod.
• A kind of: flexor muscle and hindlimb zeugopod muscle.
• antagonist of: gastrocnemius, soleus muscle, tibialis posterior, fibularis longus and plantaris.
• inserts into: distal tarsal bone and metatarsal bone.
• Innervated by: deep fibular nerve.
• contains: skeletal muscle tissue of tibialis anterior.

Questions

Where is the tibialis anterior?

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

What does the tibialis anterior connect to?

Part of: hindlimb zeugopod.

Is the tibialis anterior 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.