Anatomy Flashcards
Is a horse’s stomach monogastric?
(Yes)
The fundus or saccus cecus in horses is related to the base of what other organ?
(Spleen)
What does the margo plicatus demarcate in the stomach?
(Non-glandular from glandular)
A unique feature of horses is that the deep leaf of the greater omentum attaches to which organ?
(Transverse colon)
What are the two ligaments that form the suspensory ligament of the spleen?
(Phrenicosplenic and nephrosplenic ligaments)
What is the significance of the nephrosplenic space? Be specific.
(Site for left colon entrapment)
Which of the lobes of the liver in equine is undivided?
(Right)
Do horses have a papillary process of their caudate liver lobe?
(No)
Is the liver located mostly to the right or left in horses?
(Right)
Why do horses not have a gallbladder?
(Bc they are continuous grazers, bile is formed by the liver and directly secreted into the small intestines)
Why is it difficult to obtain a liver biopsy in horses?
(It is entirely within the thoracic cage and completely over-lapped by the lungs)
The caudate lobe of the liver is connected to what organ, be specific, by the hepatorenal ligament?
(Right kidney)
In a horse, the repeated compression of the right lobe of the liver by what organ leads to pressure atrophy?
(Right dorsal colon)
Liver biopsies in equine patients are taken on the right side by drawing two lines originating at what structure and terminating at the olecranon and point of the shoulder?
(Lines originate at the tuber coxae)
What is the purpose of the perforation in the pancreas in horses?
(Aka the portal ring, the portal vein runs through it)
What is the term for the cavity located within the major duodenal papilla that the bile and pancreatic ducts open into?
(Hepatopancreatic ampulla)
What is the location (left vs right, ventral vs dorsal) of the jejunum in an equine patient?
(Left dorsal)
What organ does the ileum open into in horses?
(Cecum)
When the jejunum enters the omental bursa via the epiploic foramen, what type of epiploic entrapment is this?
(Antegrade)
When the jejunum pushes the greater omentum in front of it as it passes through the epiploic foramen, what type of epiploic entrapment is this?
(Retrograde)
The base of the cecum is partly in the right or left paralumbar fossa of a horse?
(Right)
What is the ventral band or taeniae of the cecum attached to?
(Nothing)
What is the dorsal band or taeniae of the cecum attached to?
(The ileum via the ileocecal fold)
What is the lateral/right band or taeniae of the cecum attached to?
(The right ventral colon via the cecocolic fold)
What are the three flexures of the equine ascending colon going from cecum to descending colon?
(Sternal, pelvic, and diaphragmatic flexure)
The equine transverse colon is tightly bound to the ventral or dorsal body wall by the transverse mesocolon?
(Dorsal body wall)
When you open the linea alba in a laparotomy of an equine patient, the structures you see should be smooth or sacculated?
(Sacculated)
What are the five locations that are potential points of obstruction in equine small and large intestines?
(Ileocecal orifice, cecocolic orifice, pelvic flexure, diaphragmatic flexure, and the junction between the ascending and transverse colon)
What are the three branches of the celiac artery in horses?
(Left gastric, hepatic, and splenic arteries)
What does the colic branch of the ileocolic artery (a branch of the cranial mesenteric artery) supply in horses?
(Ascending colon near the cecum → ventral ascending colon)
What does the right colic artery of the ileocolic artery (a branch of the cranial mesenteric artery) supply?
(Ascending colon away from the cecum → dorsal ascending colon)
What is the parasitic culprit involved in equine verminous arteritis?
(Strongylus vulgaris)
The middle colic artery supplies the transverse colon, what is it a branch of?
(Ileocolic artery)