Equine Term Chapter 4 Flashcards
Barrel
Capacity of the chest or trunk
Bars (Equine)
Raised V-Shaped structure on distal surfaces of hoof.
Cannon Bone (equine)
Third metacarpal (metatarsal) of the horse also called the shin bone.
Chestnuts
Horny, irregular growths on the medial surface of the equine leg. Located in the front legs above the knee, in the back legs they are near the hock
Coronary band
Junction between the skin and the Horn of the hoof also called the coronet.
Crest
Root of the mane.
Croup
Muscular area around and above the tail base
Cutter
Second incisors (teeth) of equine
Dock
Solid part of the equine tail
Elbow
Four limb joint formed by the distal humerus proximal radius and proximal ulna.
Aragon
Small karatinized mass of horn in a small bunch of hair on the palmar or plantar aspect of the equine fetlock
Fetlock
Area of the limb between the pastern and the Canon
Fetlock joint
Metacarpophalangeal and metatarsophalangeal joint (between the cannon bone and the long pastern bone)
Flank
Side of the body between the ribs and the ilium
Forelock
In main animals the most cranial part of the main hanging down between the ears and onto the forehead.
Frog
V-shaped pad of soft horn between the bars on the sole of the equine hoof
Gaskin
Muscular portion of the hind limb between the stifle and hawk also called the crus
Heart Girth
Circumference of the chest she’s caudal to the shoulder and cranial to the back.
Heel
Coudal region of the hoof that has an area of soft tissue called the bulb
Hock
Tarsal joint also called the Tarsus
Hoof
Hard covering of the digit in ungulates
Hoof wall
Hard horny outer layer of the covering of the digit in ungulates.
Loin
Lumbar region of the back between the thorax and the pelvis.
Mane
Region of long coarse hair at the dorsal border of the neck and terminating at the poll
Para lumbar fossa
Hollow area of the flank whose boundaries are the transverse process of the lumbar vertebrae the last rib and the thigh muscle
Pastern
Area of the limb between the fetlock and hoof
Pastern joint
Proximal interphalangeal joint in ungulates.
Quarter
Lateral or medial side of the hoof
Shoulder
Region around the large joint between the humerus and the scapula
Sole
Palmar or plantar surface of the hoof irregular Crest shaped bottom of hoof
Stifel joint
Femorotibial and femoropatellar joint in quadrupeds
Toe
Cranial side of the hoof
Withers
Region over the dorsum where the neck joins the thorax and where the dorsal margins of the scapula lie just below the skin.
