vertebra

The ossified form of a vertebral element, a skeletal element that forms around the notochord and is part of the vertebral column. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the vertebra is

The ossified form of a vertebral element, a skeletal element that forms around the notochord and is part of the vertebral column. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the vertebra is

It sits 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 vertebra connects to

The atlas records 21 typed relationships for it, across 9 kinds of connection. part of vertebral column.

Supply and innervation

Venous drainage: iliolumbar vein.

Also called

Also recorded as vertebra bone and vertebrae. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002412, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: vertebral column.
• A kind of: endochondral bone, irregular bone and skeletal element.
• Connected to: head of rib.
• Attaches to: muscle of vertebral column and prevertebral muscle.
• subtype: caudal vertebra, cervical vertebra, lumbar vertebra, sacral vertebra, thoracic vertebra and vertebral bone 1, and 1 more.
• contains: arch of atlas, bony vertebral centrum, neural arch and process of vertebra.
• composed of: bone tissue.
• Drained by: iliolumbar vein.

Questions

Where is the vertebra?

It sits 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 vertebra connect to?

Part of: vertebral column.

Is the vertebra 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.