Final Stuff Flashcards
What gland is located at the base of a bird’s tail?
Uropygial gland
What is the hollow tubular portion of the feather called? (sticks into the skin follicle)
Calamus (quill)
What makes up the vanes of a feather?
Barbs and barbules
Bids pigments
1) black/grey
2) blue
3) red/orange/yellow
4) pink/brown/reds/greens
1) melanin
2) sunlight
3) Carotenoids (plants)
4) Porphyrines
Name for the featherless areas of a bird? T/F: these are preferred surgical sites?
Apteria; True
Skin fold on flexor surface of elbow?
Propatagium
4 types of toe arrangements? Which are chickens?
1) Ansiodactylie (chicken)
2) Zygodactylie
3) Tridactylie
4) Didactlyie
3 primary venipuncture sites of bird?
1) R jugular
2) wing vein
3) medial metatarsal vein
What is pinioning?
Transecting the tendon of the extensor carpi radialis to make bird flightless
What do these structures connect/open to?
1) Choana
2) Infundibular Cleft
3) Glottis
1) oral cavity to nasal cavity
2) auditory tubes
3) to trachea
What is the bird’s organ of vocalization?
Syrinx
Name of structure connecting between two ribs?
Uncinate process
Which bones contribute to triosseus canal? What passes through it?
Clavicle, coracoid, and scapula; tendon of supracoracoideus muscle
The sciatic nerve is important for what disease?
Marek’s disease
Where does O2 extraction occur in birds?
Parabronchi
Respiratory pathway of birds?
caudal air sacs, lungs (O2 extraction in parabronchi), cranial air sacs, then exhaled
Name the portions of female repro tract from proximal to distal?
Infundibulum Magnum Isthmus (longest) Shell gland (uterus) Vagina
How long does the egg spend in each segment of the tract?
Infundibulum---15mins Magnum--3hrs Isthmus--1 hr Shell gland--20 hrs (longest time) Vagina--seconds
Which ovary develops? (L/R)
Left
What teeth are the needle teeth? How many are there?
third incisior and canine
8 total
What structures are most affected by Atrophic rhinitis?
nasal bone and nasal conchae
Which tonsils are examined on the pluck at slaughter?
Paraepiglotic tonsils
What side is best for cranial vena cava puncture and why? What are the landmarks?
Right to avoid damage to left phrenic nerve and thoracic duct
Landmarks: manubrium and grater tubercle
Which nerve is blocked:
1) between lateral canthus of eye and base of horn along temporal line?
2) lateral canthis to base of ear (along zygomatic arch)
1) Cornual
2) Auriculopalpebral
Horn Innervation
1) Large ruminants
2) Small ruminants
1) cornual
2) great auricular, cornual, infratrochlear
Facial vessel used for pulse in
1) Ox
2) goats
1) facial artery
2) transverse facial
Which spp. have a traceal bronchus?
Pigs and ruminants
Which nerves are involved in anesthetizing the flank region?
T13, L1, L2
What muscle group is blocked by the proximal paravertebral blocked that isn’t with the distal? Area of skin?
Epaxial muscles; all skin of flank (distal only blocks below stifle)
Fremitus is a term related to what structure?
Uterine artery
The pudendal nerve gives what branch to the penis?
Dorsal nerve of the penis
Which two structures make up the lactiferous sinu?
Gland sinus and teat sinus
Caruncle shape in
1) cows
2) sheep/goats
1) convex
2) concave
Which animals have a suburethral diverticulum?
cows, sows, gilts
Two common place for calculi to lodge?
Urethral process and sigmoid flexure
Which bones are fused to make the bovine metacarpus?
3 and 4
Describe the fibula of the bovine?
Proximal end is fused with lateral condyle of tibia; distal end (lateral malleolus) is a separate bone
What limb artery can be used for pulse in cattle?
Saphenous
Where does Dorsal Common Digital Vein III Drain:
1) Forelimb
2) Hindlimb
1) accessory cephalic
2) cranial branch of lateral saphenous
What nerve is responsible for hindlimb digit extension in cattle?
Common peroneal
Which two muscles are part of the reciprocal mechanism?
Peroneus tertius
Superficial digital flexor
