upper jaw region

Subdivision of head that consists of the upper jaw skeletal elements plus associated soft tissue (skin, lips, muscle)[cjm]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the upper jaw region is

Subdivision of head that consists of the upper jaw skeletal elements plus associated soft tissue (skin, lips, muscle)[cjm]. The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the human body.

Where the upper jaw region is

It sits in the head, within the digestive 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 upper jaw region connects to

The atlas records 41 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of midface and mouth.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the upper jaw region. 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 maxillary part of mouth, alveolodental arch of bimaxilla, dorsal mandibular arch, dorsal pharyngeal arch 1, maxillary part of mouth proper and palatoquadrate arch, and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001709, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: midface and mouth.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and organism subdivision.
• contains: cingulum of upper canine tooth, cingulum of upper incisor tooth, gingiva of upper jaw, intermaxillary suture, maxilla and maxillary tooth, and 28 more.
• develops into: premaxilla and upper lip.
• has skeleton: skeleton of upper jaw.

Questions

Where is the upper jaw region?

It sits in the head, within the digestive 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 upper jaw region connect to?

Part of: midface and mouth.

Is the upper jaw region 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.