Horse Pelvic Stuff Flashcards
What is the technical term for point of the hip?
Tuber coxi
What is a synonym to the rump?
Croup
What is the femoropatellar joint?
Stifle
What are 2 terms for leg
Cruse and gaskin
What is the area of the tarsus called
Hock
What is the point of the hock called
Tubra calconia
What is the metatarsophalangeal joint also called
Ankle or fetlock
What is the junction of the skin and hoof
Coronet
What is the hip joint called
Coxofemoral joint
What are the 3 parts to the stifle joint?
Femoropatelar
Lateral femorotibial
Medial femorotibial
What is the hock joint called?
Tarsal joint
What is the fetlock joint?
Ankle (metatarsophalangeal)
What is the pastern joint
Proximal interphalangeal
What is the coffin joint?
Distal interphalangeal
What two things attach to the fovea capitis?
Round ligament
Accessory ligament of The hip
What bony prominence is above the condyle of the femur?
Supracondyloid fossa
What is the origin of the long digital extensor and the peronius tertius
Extensor fossa
What is the space between the tibia and fibula on the proximal side?
What passes through it?
Crual interosseus space
Cranial tubular artery
For the biceps femoris and semitendinosous, there are 2 heads, where do they originate from?
Long head from vertebrae
Short head from ischial arch
What are the 3 heads of the calf muscles called?
Triceps suri
What are the 3 heads of the triceps suri?
Gastrocnemius
Soleus (vestigule)
Superficial digital flexor
What are the 3 heads of the deep digital flexor of the pelvic limb
Superficial head (caudal tibial)
Medial head
Lateral head
What are the borders of the femoral triangle and what does it contain?
Sartorius and pectineus
Femoral artery and vein, saphenous nerve, deep inguinal lymph nodes
What are the components of the reciprocal apparatus?
Superficial digital flexor
Peronius tertius
When stifle flexes, so must the hock
What is the only muscle found in the metatarsus
Short digital extensor
What 2 of the 3 stifle joints communicate always?
Medial femorotibial and femoropatellar
No communication between medial and lateral…. Ever
What are the components of the patellar loop?
Patella and parapatellar fibrocartilage
Medial patellar ligament
Lateral patellar ligament
Medial Trochlea ridge with tubercle
What and issue with the patellar loop?
Upward fixation (desmotomy)
What passes through the tarsal canal?
Perferating tarsal artery
What provides the greatest level of movement in the tarsal joints?
Tarsocrual joint
What joints in the tarsal joints communicate always?
Tarsocrual and proximal intertarsal
What is spavin?
Any disorder of the hock
