Equine Term Chapter 4

Question 1

Barrel

Answer 1

Capacity of the chest or trunk

Question 2

Bars (Equine)

Answer 2

Raised V-Shaped structure on distal surfaces of hoof.

Question 3

Cannon Bone (equine)

Answer 3

Third metacarpal (metatarsal) of the horse also called the shin bone.

Question 4

Chestnuts

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Coronary band

Answer 5

Junction between the skin and the Horn of the hoof also called the coronet.

Question 6

Crest

Answer 6

Root of the mane.

Question 7

Croup

Answer 7

Muscular area around and above the tail base

Question 8

Cutter

Answer 8

Second incisors (teeth) of equine

Question 9

Dock

Answer 9

Solid part of the equine tail

Question 10

Elbow

Answer 10

Four limb joint formed by the distal humerus proximal radius and proximal ulna.

Question 11

Aragon

Answer 11

Small karatinized mass of horn in a small bunch of hair on the palmar or plantar aspect of the equine fetlock

Question 12

Fetlock

Answer 12

Area of the limb between the pastern and the Canon

Question 13

Fetlock joint

Answer 13

Metacarpophalangeal and metatarsophalangeal joint (between the cannon bone and the long pastern bone)

Question 14

Flank

Answer 14

Side of the body between the ribs and the ilium

Question 15

Forelock

Answer 15

In main animals the most cranial part of the main hanging down between the ears and onto the forehead.

Question 16

Frog

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Gaskin

Answer 17

Muscular portion of the hind limb between the stifle and hawk also called the crus

Question 18

Heart Girth

Answer 18

Circumference of the chest she’s caudal to the shoulder and cranial to the back.

Question 19

Heel

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Hock

Answer 20

Tarsal joint also called the Tarsus

Question 21

Hoof

Answer 21

Hard covering of the digit in ungulates

Question 22

Hoof wall

Answer 22

Hard horny outer layer of the covering of the digit in ungulates.

Question 23

Loin

Answer 23

Lumbar region of the back between the thorax and the pelvis.

Question 24

Mane

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Para lumbar fossa

Answer 25

Hollow area of the flank whose boundaries are the transverse process of the lumbar vertebrae the last rib and the thigh muscle

Question 26

Pastern

Answer 26

Area of the limb between the fetlock and hoof

Question 27

Pastern joint

Answer 27

Proximal interphalangeal joint in ungulates.

Question 28

Quarter

Answer 28

Lateral or medial side of the hoof

Question 29

Shoulder

Answer 29

Region around the large joint between the humerus and the scapula

Question 30

Sole

Answer 30

Palmar or plantar surface of the hoof irregular Crest shaped bottom of hoof

Question 31

Stifel joint

Answer 31

Femorotibial and femoropatellar joint in quadrupeds

Question 32

Toe

Answer 32

Cranial side of the hoof

Question 33

Withers

Answer 33

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