trochanter
A bony prominence near the extremity of the femur that normally serves as attachment points for hip and thigh muscles[MP,modified]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the trochanter is
A bony prominence near the extremity of the femur that normally serves as attachment points for hip and thigh muscles[MP,modified]. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the trochanter 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 trochanter connects to
The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of femur.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the trochanter. 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 femoral trochanter and trochanter of femur. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000980, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: femur.
- A kind of: zone of bone organ and zone of long bone.
- subtype: greater trochanter, lesser trochanter and third trochanter.
- contributes to morphology of: femur.
Questions
Where is the trochanter?
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 trochanter connect to?
Part of: femur.
Is the trochanter 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.