Horse Pelvic Stuff

Question 1

What is the technical term for point of the hip?

Answer 1

Tuber coxi

Question 2

What is a synonym to the rump?

Answer 2

Croup

Question 3

What is the femoropatellar joint?

Answer 3

Stifle

Question 4

What are 2 terms for leg

Answer 4

Cruse and gaskin

Question 5

What is the area of the tarsus called

Answer 5

Hock

Question 6

What is the point of the hock called

Answer 6

Tubra calconia

Question 7

What is the metatarsophalangeal joint also called

Answer 7

Ankle or fetlock

Question 8

What is the junction of the skin and hoof

Answer 8

Coronet

Question 9

What is the hip joint called

Answer 9

Coxofemoral joint

Question 10

What are the 3 parts to the stifle joint?

Answer 10

Femoropatelar
Lateral femorotibial
Medial femorotibial

Question 11

What is the hock joint called?

Answer 11

Tarsal joint

Question 12

What is the fetlock joint?

Answer 12

Ankle (metatarsophalangeal)

Question 13

What is the pastern joint

Answer 13

Proximal interphalangeal

Question 14

What is the coffin joint?

Answer 14

Distal interphalangeal

Question 15

What two things attach to the fovea capitis?

Answer 15

Round ligament
Accessory ligament of The hip

Question 16

What bony prominence is above the condyle of the femur?

Answer 16

Supracondyloid fossa

Question 17

What is the origin of the long digital extensor and the peronius tertius

Answer 17

Extensor fossa

Question 18

What is the space between the tibia and fibula on the proximal side?
What passes through it?

Answer 18

Crual interosseus space
Cranial tubular artery

Question 19

For the biceps femoris and semitendinosous, there are 2 heads, where do they originate from?

Answer 19

Long head from vertebrae
Short head from ischial arch

Question 20

What are the 3 heads of the calf muscles called?

Answer 20

Triceps suri

Question 21

What are the 3 heads of the triceps suri?

Answer 21

Gastrocnemius
Soleus (vestigule)
Superficial digital flexor

Question 22

What are the 3 heads of the deep digital flexor of the pelvic limb

Answer 22

Superficial head (caudal tibial)
Medial head
Lateral head

Question 23

What are the borders of the femoral triangle and what does it contain?

Answer 23

Sartorius and pectineus

Femoral artery and vein, saphenous nerve, deep inguinal lymph nodes

Question 24

What are the components of the reciprocal apparatus?

Answer 24

Superficial digital flexor
Peronius tertius

When stifle flexes, so must the hock

Question 25

What is the only muscle found in the metatarsus

Answer 25

Short digital extensor

Question 26

What 2 of the 3 stifle joints communicate always?

Answer 26

Medial femorotibial and femoropatellar
No communication between medial and lateral…. Ever

Question 27

What are the components of the patellar loop?

Answer 27

Patella and parapatellar fibrocartilage
Medial patellar ligament
Lateral patellar ligament
Medial Trochlea ridge with tubercle

Question 28

What and issue with the patellar loop?

Answer 28

Upward fixation (desmotomy)

Question 29

What passes through the tarsal canal?

Answer 29

Perferating tarsal artery

Question 30

What provides the greatest level of movement in the tarsal joints?

Answer 30

Tarsocrual joint

Question 31

What joints in the tarsal joints communicate always?

Answer 31

Tarsocrual and proximal intertarsal

Question 32

What is spavin?

Answer 32

Any disorder of the hock