External Anatomical Terms

Question 1

Top of the head

Answer 1

POLL

Question 2

Region between the eyes and ears, supported by the frontal and parietal bones

Answer 2

FOREHEAD

Question 3

Part of the face supported by the maxillae and nasal bones

Answer 3

MUZZLE

Question 4

Directly below the interdental space in the mouth

Answer 4

CHIN GROOVE or CURB GROOVE

Question 5

Is the portion of empty gum line between the front and cheek teeth

Answer 5

INTERDENTAL SPACE

Question 6

Top line of the neck, a gentle convex curve from the poll to withers

Answer 6

CREST

Question 7

Top of the shoulder where the neck joins the body

Answer 7

WITHERS

Question 8

Top of the spinous process of the tallest thoracic vertebrae

Answer 8

LUMP

Question 9

Point for pulse, lower part of the horse’s neck on both sides; a line of indentation and just above the trachea

Answer 9

JUGULAR GROOVE

Question 10

This is where the the jugular vein, the carotid artery and the sympathetic nerve trunk are located

Answer 10

JUGULAR GROOVE

Question 11

The region around the large joint between the humerus and the scapula

Answer 11

SHOULDER

Question 12

Area under the throat where the head and neck are joined and where the harness throat latch fits

Answer 12

THROAT LATCH

Question 13

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

Answer 13

LOIN

Question 14

A muscular area and above the base of the tail in the horse

Answer 14

CROUP

Question 15

Solid part of a horse’s tail

Answer 15

DOCK

Question 16

The caudal terminal appendage of the vertebral column made up of the coccygeal vertebrae and their attendant tissues

Answer 16

TAIL

Question 17

Part of the foreleg supported by the radius and ulna, between the elbow and carpus

Answer 17

FOREARM

Question 18

For ungulates the carpus; also known as the stifle joint or femorotibial joint

Answer 18

KNEE

Question 19

Flattened oval masses of horn on the medial surface of the forearm and hock of the horse

Answer 19

CHESTNUT

Question 20

The third metacarpal and metatarsal of the horse; The third and fourth metacarpal and metatarsal in ruminants

Answer 20

CANNON

Question 21

In ungulates, the segment of the limb between the fetlock and hoof, supported by proximal and middle phalanges

Answer 21

PASTERN

Question 22

Small mass of horn in a small bunch of hair on the palmar or planter aspects of the fetlock of the horse

Answer 22

ERGOT

Question 23

In ungulates, the place at the rear of the hoof or claw where horn and skin meet and where the wall or the hoof turns horizontally to become the sole

Answer 23

HEEL

Question 24

A horseman’s expression for the horse’s trunk; determined largely by the capacity of the chest

Answer 24

BARREL

Question 25

Homologue to the human knee among quadrupeds; Compose of the femorotibial and femorotibial joints

Answer 25

STIFFLE

Question 26

The muscular portion of the hindleg between the stifle and hock; muscle involve is the gastrocnemius

Answer 26

GASKIN or SECOND THIGH

Question 27

Metacarpo-phalangeal and metatarso-phalangeal joint of large animals

Answer 27

FETLOCK

Question 28

Hair found at the tip of the tail in ruminants

Answer 28

SWITCH

Question 29

Loose skin under the throat and neck which may be pendulous in some breed of cattle

Answer 29

DEWLAP

Question 30

A mass of connective tissue and fat covering the anterior part of the chest ruminants; lies at the most ventral part of the neck, between the forelegs and covering the anterior part of the sternum

Answer 30

BRISKET

Question 31

Circumference of the animal's chest; use to determine the body weight of an animal without scale

Answer 31

HEART GIRTH

Question 32

A large pendulous organ consisting of two or more mammary glands enclosed in a common envelope (sac) and each provided with a single nipple

Answer 32

UDDER

Question 33

The posterior ends of the pelvic bones that appear as two raised areas on either side of the tail head

Answer 33

PIN BONE

Question 34

In goats, have variable location and occurrence, these are fusiform around 4-5cm long, fleshy masses covered with normal skin and suspended usually from the mandibular area, but there are others that are found below the ears

Answer 34

WATTLE

Question 35

Also known as tassels

Answer 35

WATTLE

Question 36

In fowls, a double fold of skin, similar anatomically to the tissue of the bird's comb, that are suspended from the birds mandible; bilateral without feathers and have a red and meaty appearance

Answer 36

WATTLE

Question 37

The hollow of the flank, bounded dorsally by the transverse processes of the lumbar vertebrae, cranially by the last rib and caudally by the muscles of the thigh

Answer 37

PARALUMBAR FOSSA

Question 38

Also known as the "hunger hollow"

Answer 38

PARALUMBAR FOSSA

Question 39

External throat or upper neck, especially if fat or loose skin is present

Answer 39

JOWL

Question 40

Group of muscles in the upper thigh

Answer 40

HAM

Question 41

A vascular, red cutaneous structure attached in a sagittal plane to the dorsum of the skull of domestic fowls; consists of a base that is attach to the skull, body which if the central, a backward projecting blade and upward protecting points

Answer 41

COMB

Question 42

A sharp, horn-covered, body projection from the shank of some species of male birds like the male chickens

Answer 42

SPUR

Question 43

The tibia or shin of birds

Answer 43

SHANK

Question 44

Also known as the Uropygial Glands; Bilobed oil glands on both sides of the pygostyle of many birds that make their feathers waterproof

Answer 44

PREEN GLAND

Question 45

Also known as frontal process and nasal comb; a cone shaped mass of red-vascular tissue that lies across the base of the turkey's beak

Answer 45

SNOOD