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Chapter 4 - head to toe -horse Flashcards

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1
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What is the barrel on the horse?

A

capacity of the chest or trunk

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What are the bars on the hoof?

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raised v-shaped structure on distal surface of hoof

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3
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What is the frog?

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V-shaped pad of soft horn between the bars on the sole of the equine hoof

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4
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What is the cannon bone?

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third metacarpal (metatarsal) of the horse; also called the skin bone

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5
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What is the cheek?

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fleshy portion of either side of the face; forms the sides of the mouth and continues rostrally to the lips

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6
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What is the chest?

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part of the body between the neck and abdomen; the thorax

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7
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What is the chestnuts?

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horny;irregular growths on the medial surface of the equine leg; in the front legs, the chestnuts are just above the knee; in the rear legs, the chestnuts are near the hock

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What is the coffin joint?

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distal interphalangeal joint (joint between the short pastern and coffin bones

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9
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What is the corners?

A

third incisors of equine

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What is the coronary band?

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junction between the skin and the horn of the hoof; also called the coronet

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What is the crest?

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root of the mane - toward top of the head

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12
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What is the croup?

A

muscular area around and above the tail base

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13
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What is the cutters?

A

second incisors of equine

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14
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What is the dock?

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solid part of the equine tail

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What is the ergot?

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small keratinized mass of horn in a small bunch of hair on the palmar or plantar aspects of the equine fetlock

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What is the elbow?

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forelimb joint formed by distal humerus proximal radius, and proximal ulna

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What is the fetlock?

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area of the limb between the pastern and the cannon

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18
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What is the fetlock joint?

A

metacarpophalangeal and metatarsophalangeal joint (joint between the cannon bone and long pastern bone

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What is the flank?

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side of the body between the ribs and ilium

20
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What is the forelock?

A

in maned animals, the most cranial part of the mane hanging down between the ears and onto the forehead

21
Q

What is the gaskin?

A

muscular portion of the hindlimb between the stifle and hock; also called the crus

22
Q

What is the heart girth?

A

circumference of the chest just caudal to the shoulders and cranial to the back - getting this measurement can determine how much a horse weighs

23
Q

What is the heel?

A

caudal region of the hoof that has an area of soft tissue called the bulb

24
Q

What is the hock?

A

tarsal joint

25
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What is the hoof?

A

hard covering of the digit in ungulates

26
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What is the hoof wall?

A

hard horny outer layer of the covering of the digit in ungulates

27
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What is the knee?

A

carpus in ungulates

28
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What is a ungulate?

A

an animal with hooves

29
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What is the loin?

A

lumbar region of the back between the thorax and pelvis

30
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What is the mane?

A

region of long-coarse hair at the dorsal border of the neck and terminating at the poll

31
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What is the muzzle?

A

two nostrils (including the skin and fascia) and the muscles of the upper and lower lip

32
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What is the nippers?

A

hollow

33
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What is the paralumbar fossa

A

hollow area of the flank whose boundaries are the transverse processes of the lumbar vertebrae (dorsally) the last rib (cranially) and the thigh muscles (caudally)

34
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What is the pastern?

A

area of the limb between the fetlock and hoof

35
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What is the pastern joint?

A

proximal interphalangeal joint (joint between the long and short pastern bones

36
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What is the poll?

A

top of the head; occiput; nuchal crest

37
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What is the quarter?

A

lateral or medial side of the hoof

38
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What is the shoulder?

A

region around the large joint between the humerus and scapula

39
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What is the sole?

A

palmar or plantar surface of the hoof; irregular crescent-shaped bottom of hoof

40
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What is the stifle joint?

A

femorotibial and femoropatellar joint in quadrupeds

41
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What is the tail?

A

the caudal part of the vertebral column extending beyond the trunk

42
Q

What is the tail head?

A

base of the tail where it connects to the body

43
Q

What is the teat?

A

nipple of mammary gland

44
Q

What is the toe?

A

cranial side of the hoof

45
Q

What is the udder?

A

mammary gland

46
Q

What is the white line?

A

fusion between the wall and sole of the hoof

47
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What is the withers?

A

region over the dorsum where the neck joins the thorax and were the dorsal margins of the scapula lie just below the skin

Medical Terminology- vic (17 decks)

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