ETC - EXAM 1

Question 1

Define a process

Answer 1

a bony outgrowth of a larger bone

Question 2

define a condyle

Answer 2

a rounded knob for articulation

Question 3

define a tubercle

Answer 3

a rounded (usually roughen) prominence

Question 4

define a trochanter

Answer 4

a large blunt shaped process (only on the femur)

Question 5

define a fossa/fovea

Answer 5

a bony depression

Question 6

identify a muscle that can draw the head AND the neck to the side

Answer 6

brachiocephalicus
sternocephalicus

Question 7

Ginger, a Brittany spaniel, has a deep painful lesion on the right side of her neck cranio-dorsal to the scapula. The pain from the lesion makes her unwilling to turn her head to the right (aka, laterally flex the right side). The lesion may be affecting which muscle based on this clinical sign?

Answer 7

omotransversarius