vertebral column

Subdivision of skeletal system that consists of all the vertebra and associated skeletal elements and joints in the body[modified from VSAO]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the vertebral column is

Subdivision of skeletal system that consists of all the vertebra and associated skeletal elements and joints in the body[modified from VSAO]. The atlas records it as a system at the system scale in the human body.

Where the vertebral column is

It sits within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the vertebral column connects to

The atlas records 12 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of postcranial axial skeletal system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the vertebral column. 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 spine, backbone, vertebral column skeleton, columna vertebralis, dorsal spine and spinal column, 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:0001130, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: postcranial axial skeletal system.
• A kind of: subdivision of skeletal system.
• Attaches to: set of muscles of vertebral column.
• Adjacent to: erector spinae muscle group.
• contains: epidural space, intervertebral joint, ligament of vertebral column, spinal vein, subdivision of vertebral column and vertebra, and 1 more.
• originates from: iliopsoas.

Questions

Where is the vertebral column?

It sits within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the vertebral column connect to?

Part of: postcranial axial skeletal system.

Is the vertebral column 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.