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What does anatomy mean?

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Deals with the form and structure of the body and it parts.
What things look like and where they are located.

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What does physiology mean?

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Deals with the function of the body and its parts
How things work and what they do

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What is microscopic anatomy?

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Structures so small that we need a microscope to see them clearly; cells and tissues

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What is regional anatomy/

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Another way to approach anatomy is to study individual region of the body

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What is systemic anatomy?

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Individual systems of the body

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What does the skeletal system deal with?

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Bones and joints

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What is the integumentary system?

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Skin,hair,nails, hooves, antlers, and horns

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What is the nervous system?

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Central nervous system and peripheral nerves

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What is the cardiovascular system?

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Heart and blood vessels and capillaries

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What is the respiratory system?

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Lungs and air passageways

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What is the digestive system/

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Gi and accessory digestive organs

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What is the muscular system?

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Muscles that attache to bones and has three types of muscles; smooth skeletal, and cardiac

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What is the sensory system?

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Organ of general and special senses

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What is the endocrine system?

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Endocrine glands and hormones

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Where is the dorsal plane?

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Front of forelimb and hindlimb fromcarpus adtarsus dismally toward the back

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Where is the transverse plane?

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Plane across the body that divides it into cranial and caudal not equal parts

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Where is the median plane?

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Runs down the center of the body lengthwise and into equal halves. Always towards the center of the body

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Where is proximal?

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Top or up

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Where is distal/

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Bottom or down

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Where is cranial?

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Towards the head

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Where is caudal?

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Towards the tail

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Where is ventral?

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Toward the belly of a standing animal

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Where is medial?

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Toward median plane

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Where is the xyphoid process?

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Caudal end of the sternum or breast bone

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Where is superior?
Used in place of cranial
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Where is dorsal?
Towards the back of a standing animal
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Where is a plantar foot/
Back hind limb from tarsus ground surface of our foot Back forelimbs from carpus distally
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Where is the muzzle on a dog?
The rostral part of the face formed mainly by the maxillary and nasal bones
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What is the knee called?
Carpus of hoofed animals or patella in dogs and cats
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Where is the pattern?
Area of the proximal phalanx of hoofed animals
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Where is the tail head?
Dorsal part of the base of the tail
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Where are the withers on a horse?
Shoulders or dorsal to scapula
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What does superficial mean?
Towards the surface
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Where is the carpus?
Front leg proximal end of hand also known as the wrist
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Where is the tarsus?
Rear leg proximal end or ankle
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What is another name for head?
Cranium- cranial cavity
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What is the visceral layer?
Layer that covers organs
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What are organs?
A group of tissues that come together to work to do a certain function and purpose
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What are systems?
Group of organs that communicate together to one big function or system
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What does the equilibrium do?
Helps balance
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Where is rostral?
Toward tip of the nose
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Where is the spinal cavity?
Spinal cord, vertebrae of spine, houses and protects the spinal cord
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Where is the ventral body cavity?
Larger tan the dorsal one. Contains most of the soft organs of the body
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Where is the thorax located?
Chest Caudal abdominal cavity of the abdomen, divided by the diaphragm muscle into the cranial thoracic cavity
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What is epithelial tissue?
Composed of cells and covers body surface and secrete materials and absorbs materials Lines bladder, mouth, and Gi Form glands,secrete useful substances and excrete wastes sweet glands, salivary glands, and mammary glands
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Where is posterior?
Takes place of dorsal - back
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Where is the poll?
Top of head base of the ears
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What is macroscopic anatomy?
Body parts large enough to be seen with the unaided eye: organs and bones and muscles
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What is inflammation?
Condition called pleuritis or pleurisy the surface scape over each other with each breath making breathing very painful
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What are tissues?
Group of cells together
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Where is the stifle on a horse?
Femoratibia joint- human knee
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Where is anterior?
Takes place of ventral- belly
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Where is the flank?
Lateral surface of the abdomen between the last rib and the hind legs
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What is the planes of reference?
Four planes Imaginary slice through the body oriented at right angles to the other 2
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Where is inferior?
Used in place of caudal
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What does deep mean?
Toward the center
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What does palmar do?
“ back” of forelimbs carpus distally
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What is the pleura
Organs in the thoracic cavity are covered by this membrane
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What is nervous tissue?
Transmit information around the body and control functions Goes from the body to the brain and back to the body
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What does connective tissue do?
Hold body together and support it
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What is the reproductive system?
Male and female reproductive structure
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What is the digestive system?
Obtains, digests, and absorbs nutrients to fuel the body
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What is muscle tissue?
Makes body inside and out Skeletal muscle Smooth muscle Cardiac muscle
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What is the parietal layer?
Layer that lines the whole thoracic cavity
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Where is the Sagittal plane?
Plane the runs length of the body and divides it into left and right parts that are necessarily equal halves
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What does health mean?
State or normal anatomy and physiology
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What is the urinary system?
Kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder and urethra
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What is the cannon on a horse?
Large metacarpal or metatarsal bone of hoofed animals
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What is the hock?
The tarsus
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Where is the barrel?
Trunk of the body formed by the rib cage ad abdomen
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Where is the frontal plane?
Animal stands in water with body submerged partially, the surface of the water describes a dorsal plane in humans this plane is called this
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What is a bilateral symmetry?
Left and right halves of an animal’s body are essential mirror images of each other
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What is homeostasis?
Maintenance of a dynamic equilibrium in the body
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What is gastrointestinal?
Duodenum Jejunum Ileum Cecum Colon Anus
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What is the dorsal body cavity?
Brain and spinal cord, the central nervous system Spherical cranial cavity- skull Long narrow spinal cavity- running down the spine
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What is the brisket?
Area at the base of the neck between the front leg that covers cranial end of the sternum
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Where is latera?
Away from median

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