Anatomy Flashcards
What is a plane?
A surface, real or imaginary, along which any two points can be connected.
What is the median plane?
Divides head, body or limb into equal right and left halves.
Describe the saggital plane.
Passes through head, body or limb, parallel to the median plane.
Describe the transverse plane.
Cuts across the head, body or limb at a right angle to its long axis or across the long axis of an organ or part.
What are dorsal planes?
Run at right angles to the median and transverse planes. Divide the body or head into dorsal and ventral portions.
Describe the anatomical term dorsal.
Towards or relatively near the back, corresponding to the surface of the head, neck, tail. On the limbs, applies to the upper or front surface of the carpus, tarsus, metapodium, and digits.
Describe the anatomical term ventral.
Towards or relatively near the belly and the corresponding surface of the head, neck, thorax, and tail.
Describe the anatomical term medial.
Medial is towards or relatively near the median plane.
Describe the anatomical term lateral.
Away from, or relatively farther from the median plane.
Describe the anatomical term cranial.
Towards or relatively near the head. On the limbs it applies proximal to the carpus and tarsus. In reference to the head, it is replaced by the term rostral.
Describe the term rostral.
Towards or relatively near the nose.
Applies to the head only.
Describe the anatomical term caudal.
Towards, or relatively near the tail. On the limbs it applies proximal to the carpus and tarsus.
Also can be used in reference to the head.
What does the term proximal mean?
Relatively near the main mass of origin. In the limbs and tail it refers to the attached end. In vertebrae it refers to the main mass of bone, not the spinous processes (these are distal).
Describe the term distal.
Away from the main mass of origin. In the limbs and tail this is the free end-unattached.
What does the term superficial refer to?
Relatively near the surface of the body or the surface of a solid organ.
What does the term deep refer to?
Relatively near the centre of the body or centre of a solid organ.
Outline the differences between the terms internal/inner and external/outer.
Internal/inner is close to the centre of an organ, body cavity or structure.
External/outer is away from the centre of an organ or structure.
What terms are commonly used in reference to the eye, eyelids, lips, inner ear and pituitary gland in the place of the terms cranial, caudal, dorsal and ventral?
Superior - above
Inferior - below
Anterior - part of structure facing forward
Posterior - part of structure facing towards rear or animal.
What does the term palmar refer to?
Aspect of the forepaw on which the pads are located and the corresponding surface of the metacarpus and carpus.
Describe the term plantar.
Aspect of the hindpaw on which the pads are located and the corresponding surface of the metatarsus and tarsus.
What is the surface opposite to the plantar and palmar surfaces?
Dorsal surface.
What does the term axis refer to?
The central line of the body or any of its parts.
In terms of the digits, the functional axis passes between the third and fourth digit.
Describe the term axial. Compare this to abaxial.
Axial refers to the surface of the digits which faces towards the axis, whereas abaxial refers to the surface facing away from the axis.
In the horse there is no axial surface due to the presence of only one digit.
What is over extension?
When a joint is extended beyond 180 degrees.
What is retraction?
When the limb is moved back towards the body.
What is protraction?
When a limb is moved cranially. The limb is advanced forwards.
Compare abduction and adduction.
Abduction is when the limb is moved away from the median plane.
Adduction is when the limb is moved towards the median plane.
Describe circumduction
Movement of a part when outlining surface of a cone.
Eg. Arm extended drawing a circle.
Describe rotation.
Movement of a part around its long axis either medial or lateral.
Link doesn’t abduct or adduct, just rotates on long axis.
Compare supination and pronation.
Supination is the lateral rotation of an appendage so the palmar surface of the paw faces medially.
Pronation is the medial rotation of the appendage from the supine position so that the palmar surface will face the substrate (breaststroke).
Compare supine and prone.
Supine is when the animal is lying on its back.
Prone is when the animal is in a position on its ventral surface.
What is the manus and what limb regions does it comprise?
Forepaw.
Comprises of claw, phalanges, metacarpals and carpals.
Also includes interdigital space.
What is the bone name and segment of the shoulder?
Segment is scapular, bone is scapula.
What is the segment and bone of the arm?
Segment is brachium, bone is humerus.
What is the segment and bone of the forearm?
Antebrachium is the segment.
Bone is radius and ulna.
What is the anatomical name for the shoulder joint?
Humeral articulation.
What is the anatomical name for the elbow joint?
Cubical articulation
What are the anatomical names for the components of the wrist joint?
Antebrachiocarpal
Intercarpal
Carpometacarpal
Where is the popliteal region?
Behind the knee/patella.
What is the pes?
Hindpaw.
Comprises claw, phalanges, metatarsals and tarsals.
What is the segment and bone of the thigh?
Segment is femoral, bone is femur.
What is the segment and bone of the shank?
Segment is crus, bones are tibia and fibula.
What is the anatomical name for the hip joint?
Coxal articulation
What is the anatomical name for the stifle/knee joint?
Genual articulation
What is the anatomical name and components of the hock joint?
Tarsal joint
Tarsocrural, intertarsal, tarsometatarsal
What is the segment of the phalanges?
Digits
What are haemopoetic organs?
Organs which produce blood cells
What are the main functions of bone?
Framework for protection and locomotion
Production of blood cells
Storage of fat and minerals
What process forms the flat bones of the skull?
Intramembranous ossification - osteoblasts lay down bone between two layers of fibrous connective tissue.
What process replaces hyaline cartilage within the embryo with bone?
Endochondral ossification.
Which process do long bones develop by?
Endochondral ossification
Briefly describe the stages of endochondral ossification.
- Cartilage model develops.
- Primary centres of ossification appear in diaphysis or shaft, cartilage begins to be replaced by osteoblasts laying down bone.
- Secondary centres of ossification appear in epiphysis or ends of bone.
- Osteoclasts begin to remove bone from the centre of the diaphysis to form marrow cavity.
- Between diaphysis and epiphysis a narrow band of cartilage persists, this is the growth/epiphyseal plate. This plate closes after the animal finishes growing.
Where would you find the metaphysis?
Central to the growth plates at either end of the bone
Distal to the spongy bone.
What is the manubrium?
Cranial end of the sternum
What is the caudal end of the sternum called?
Xiphoid
Describe long bones.
Typically limb bones, shaft containing medullary cavity filled with bone marrow and a diaphysis and epiphysis.
Describe flat bones.
Outer layer of compact bone with a layer of cancellous or spongy bone inside.
No medullary cavity.
Eg. Skull, scapula, ribs
Describe short bones.
Outer layer of compact bone with core of cancellous bone and no medullary cavity.
Eg. Carpal or tarsal bones.
Describe irregular bones?
Similar structure to short bones but less uniform shape.
Lie in the midline and are unpaired.
Sesamoid, pneumatic and splanchnic are all types of what bone?
Specialised.
Sesamoid-changes angle at which tendon passes over bone, reduces wear and tear.
Pneumatic-contain air filled spaces in sinus, reduce weight of bone.
Splanchnic-develops in soft organ, unattached from skeleton.
What are protuberances on bone for and what are they called?
Attachment of muscle.
Tuberosity, trochanter, tubercle.
What is a trochlear?
Bony structure through or over which tendon passes.
Usually grooves.
What is a clondyle and epicondyle?
Clondyle is rounded projection on bone usually for articulation.
Epicondyle is projection of bone on lateral edge above clondyle.
What is a foramen?
Opening or passage through bone where blood vessels and nerves pass through.
What is a fossa?
Hollow or depressed area on bone.
What is synarthroses?
Site of junction or union of two or more bones. Some are moveable and others immovable.
Fibrous joints, syndesmoses, sutures and gomphosis are all examples of what?
Joints with little or no joint space.
What are some forms of suture joint?
Serrate, plane, squamous, foliate.
What is gomphosis?
Implantation of teeth in dental alveoli by periodontal membrane.
What is syndesmology?
Study of joints
Cartilagenous and synovial are both forms of what?
Joints
What are the forms of cartilaginous joints?
Hyaline (base of skull and hyoid), fibrocartilaginous (two halves of pelvis), ossified (between radius and ulna).
What are the components of a synovial joint?
Ligaments, articulation cartilage, bone, meniscus(not always), joint cavity, joint capsule, synovial membrane, subsynovial tissue, fibrous layer of joint capsule.
What are some normal range of movements within joints?
Flexion and extension, adduction and abduction, rotation, gliding.
What are some types of synovial joint?
Plane/gliding, hinge, pivot, condylar, ball and socket.
Where are synovial bursae?
Located at sites where muscles, tendons, or ligaments pass over tissues or change direction over bony prominences.
Describe a synovial tendon sheath?
Double layered elongated tube that encloses a tendon.
Reduce friction during movement and protects tendon against pressure.