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Canine Thorax Flashcards

1
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What are ribs 1-9 and where do they attach?

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Sternal or “true” ribs and they attach to the sternum

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What are ribs 10-13 and where do they attach?

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Asternal or “false” ribs and they attach caudal to the sternum

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What is the costal arch?

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United costal cartilages of ribs 10-12

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What is the floating rib?

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The 13th rib fails to make contact with the costal arch and instead ends freely in the flank.

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What is number 1?

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Asternal or “false” ribs

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What is number 2?

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Floating rib

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What is number 3?

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Costal arch?

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What is number 4?

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Sternal or “True” ribs

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Thoracic Cavity Boundary - Crainal

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Thoracic Inlet

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Thoracic Cavity Boundary - Caudal

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Diaphragm

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Thoracic Cavity Boundary - Dorsal

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Thoracic Vertebral Bodies

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Thoracic Cavity Boundary - Ventral

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Sternum

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Thoracic Cavity Boundary - Lateral

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Ribs, Costal Cartilages, and Intercostal Muscles,

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Thoracic Inlet Boundary - Dorsal

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Body of the first Thoracic Vertebra

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Thoracic Inlet Boundary - Ventral

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First Sternebra (manubrium)

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Thoracic Inlet Boundary - Lateral

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First pair of Ribs and their costal cartilages.

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Thoracic Cavity Contents:

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Trachea
Heart
Lungs
Thymus
Esophagus
Lymph Nodes
Vessels
Nerves
Plura Cavity
Pericardial Cavity

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Thoracic Inlet Contents:

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Trachea
Esophagus
Vagosympathetic Nerve Trunks
Recurrent Laryngeal Nerves
Phrenic Nerves
Ventral branches of 1st and 2nd Thoracic Spinal Nerves
Several Blood Vessels
Pleural Cupula​e

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What is number 1?

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Thoracic Outlet:

Esophageal Hiatus

Esophagus, Dorsal and Ventral Vagal Trunk

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What is number 2?

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Thoracic Outlet:

Lumbocostal Arch

Sympathetic Trunk and Major Splanchnic Nerve

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What is number 3?

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Thoracic Outlet:

Cava Foramen

Caudal Vena Cava

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What is number 4?

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Thoracic Outlet:

Aortic Hiatus

Aortic Vein, Azygous Vein, and Thoracic Duct

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23
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What is Endothoracic Fascia?

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Connective tissue lising the thoracic cavity and attaching the pleurae to the thoracic wall and diaphragm.

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Where is the Endothoracic Fascia?

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It passes through the thoracic inlet cranially and blends with the deep cervical fascia.

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What is pleura?

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Mesothelial membrane which lines the thoracic cavity, encloses the mediastinum, and covers the lungs.

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What is mesothelium?

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Simple squamous epithelium (derived from mesoderm) which lines the coelomic cavity and its adult derivatives.

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What is number 1?

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Mesothelium

Ectoderm

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What is number 2?

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Mesothelium

Mesoderm

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What is number 3?

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Mesothelium

Endoderm

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30
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Where is the Mediastinum located?

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Midline partition of the thorax.

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What does the Mediastinum include?

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Two Mediastinal Pleurae and space between them.

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What is enclosed by the Mediastinum?

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Thymus
Lymph Nodes
Heart
Aorta
Trachea
Esophagus
Nerves & Vessesl
Varying amounts of connective tissue & Fat

33
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Identify the layer/portion of a tendon sheath which is in direct contact with the tendon.

A. Farietal Layer

B. Visceral Layer

C. Mesotendon

D. Synovial Fluid

A

B. Visceral Layer

34
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What surround the lungs?

A

Pleural Cavities

They surround the lungs like a balloon, do not enclose it.

35
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What do the Pleural Cavities contain?

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Contains only a small amount of serous fluid in health.

36
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What is number 1?

A

Costal Parietal Pleura

37
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What is number 2?

A

Mediastinal Parietal Pleura

38
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What is number 3?

A

Diaphragmatic Parietal Pleura

39
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What is number 4?

A

Pulmonary Visceral Pleura

40
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What is the connecting pleura?

A

ligaments and folds

Pulmonary ligament

Plica Vena Cava

41
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Pneumothorax

A

The canine mediastinum is easily ruptured, often allowing communication between both pleural cavities.

42
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Identify the Connecting Pleura.

A

Left: Pulmonary ligament

Right: Plica venae cavae

43
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Where is the Line of Pleural Refection?

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Along the horizontal parts of the 8th & 9th costal cartilages, across the 10th & 11th ribs at the costochondral junction, across the middle of the last rib, & cranially to the 12th intercostal space.

44
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What is the fibroserous covering of the heart?

A

Pericardium

45
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What is the Serous pericardium?

A

mesothelial sac enclosing the pericardial cavity

(divided into parietal and visceral layers)

46
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What is the fibrous connective tissue covering the parital layer of the serous pericardium?

A

Fibrous pericardium

47
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What is the Pericardial Sac

A

Composite structure consisting of 3 layers which surrounds the pericardial cavity.

48
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What is number 1?

A

Costal Pleura (Parietal)

49
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What is number 2?

A

Pulmonary Pleura (Visceral)

50
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What is number 3?

A

Pleural Cavity

51
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What is number 4?

A

Mediastinal pleura (parietal)

52
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What is number 1?

A

Mediastinal Pleura

53
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What is number 2?

A

Pericardial Mediastinal Pleura

54
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What is number 3?

A

Parietal Serous Pericardium

55
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What is number 4?

A

Visseral Serous Pericardium

56
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What is number 5?

A

Pleura Cavity

57
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What is number 6?

A

Mediastinal Pleura

58
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What is number 7?

A

Fibrous Pericardium Connective Tissue

59
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What is number 8?

A

Paricardial Sac (3 layers)

60
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What is cardiac Tamponade?

A

Excessive fluid accumulation results in compression of the heart.

(Fibrous pericardium preents significant distension of the pericardal cavity in the short term.)

61
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How many lobes does the Left Lung have?

A

2 Lobes

Cranial lobe (cranial & caudal)

Caudal lobe

62
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How many lobes doe the Right Lung have?

A

4 Lobes

Cranial
Caudal
Middle
Accessory

63
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Where is the Cardiac Notch?

A

Right Lung - low in the right 4th - 5th intercostal space.

(can access the heart with a needle w/o hitting the lung)

64
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What is number 1?

A

Left Cranial Portion of the Cranial Lobe

65
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What is number 2?

A

Left Caudal Portion of the Cranial Lobe

66
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What is number 3?

A

Left Caudal Lobe

67
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What is number 4?

A

Accessory Lobe

68
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What is number 5?

A

Caudal Lobe

69
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What is number 6?

A

Middle Lobe

70
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What is number 7?

A

Cranial Lobe

71
Q

What is the midline cartilaginous crest where trachea devides into right & left principal bronchi.

72
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What is the branch from the trachea to the lungs?

A

Tracheal Bifurcation

73
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What are the Bronchi?

A

Primary (principal) Bronchus

Secondary (lobar) Bronchus

Tertiary (segmental) Bronchus

74
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What is the Bronchopulmonary segment?

A

The Tertiary (segmental) Bronchus and the tissue it ventilates.

75
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What artery(ies) function as the nutritional blood supply?

A

Bronchoesophageal artery

(Located from the right 5th intercostal artery)

76
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What artery(ies) functions as the functional blood supply?

A

Pulmonary Arteries (from the pulmonary trunk)

77
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What is the purpose of the Functional Blood supply?

A

Carry nonaerated blood from the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs for gaseous exchange.

78
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Where is the Auscultation Triangle?

A

Caudal border of the triceps brachii m.

Lateral edge of epaxial mm.

Line paralleling basal border of the lungs
(sternal end of the 6th rib to 11th intercostal space)

79
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Where is the Costodiaphragmatic recess?

A

The potential space where the diaphragmatic and costal parietal pleura are in contact ith one another.

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