Lecture 13: Horse Thoracic Cavity (Exam 2) Flashcards
What ribs is the diaphragm found
7th to the 18th rib
What does the costal part of the diaphragm attach too
The cartilages of the ribs
What does the sternal part of the diaphragm attach too
The dorsal surface of the xiphoid cartilage
What does the lumbar part of the diaphragm attach too
The right & left crura (lumbar vertebrae & ventral longitudinal lig)
Where is the aortic hiatus located
Btw/ the two crura
Where is the esophageal hiatus
Perforates the right crus near its junction w/ the central tendon
Where is the caval foramen located
Courses through the central tendon toward the right side
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- C = Costal parts
- S = Sternal parts
What part of the diaphragm attaches to the cartilages of the ribs
Costal parts
What is the difference btw/ a hiatus & foramen
- Hiatus - apperature btw/ muscles
- Foramen - Not btw/ muscles
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What are the parietal pleuras found in equine
- Mediastinal pleura (cranial, middle, caudal)
- Diaphragmatic pleura
- Costal pleura
Which pleura is usually fenestrated in equine
Caudal mediastinum
What is the Cupula plural
- Cranial extent of the pleural cavity
- Extends cranial to the first rib
- Is larger on the right side
Name the places in pleura where there is no lung found
- Cupula pleural
- Costodiaphragmatic recess
What is the lung capacity of a horses lungs
55 liters
What is the difference btw/ the left & right lung in equine
There is an accessory lobe in the right lung
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Is this a right or left lobe
Right lobe
What are the lobes of the right lung
- Cranial
- Caudal
- Accessory lobes
What is different about equine lungs
- A defined cardiac notch
- Lobes do not have a distinct line separating them
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Describe the pulmonary hilus/hilum
- Wedge shaped region in the middle of ea. lung
- Has no pleura surrounding it
- Is where the main structures of the lung enter & exit
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What are the lobes of the left lung
- Cranial
- Caudal
What intercostal spaces can the cardiac notch of the left lung be found
- 3rd
- 4th
- 5th
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Is this a left or right lung?
Left
At what are the ICS where the cardiac notch is?
3rd - 5th ICS
What muscles are attached in the internal walls of the trachea to connect the tracheal cartilage
Tracheal muscles
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At what thoracic vertebrae is the carina found
T4 - T5
Secondary bronchus
right - 3
left - 2
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What is “A”
what are the basal border of the lung
- Dorsal region of the 16th rib
- Middle of the 11th rib
- Costochondral jxn of the 6th rib
What is the costodiaphragmatic recess
Space caudal to the basal border of the lungs
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What are the borders/points to listen to the lungs
What % of the horses weight = the heart
0.7%
What is the average pulse in a mature horse & what is the max it can be
- Avg - 28 to 45 bpm
- Max - 250 bpm
What is the average weight of an adult horse heart
3.6 kg
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What should be an important part of the heart that should be looked at in a necropsy. (especially in foals)
Fossa ovalis
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What is a difference found in the equine heart
- The right coronary artery is larger
- The subsinuosal interventricular br is provided by the right circumflex br of the right coronary artery
- The left & right circumflex do not anostamos (not come together)
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Where is the pulmonary valve found
- Left side
- 3rd or 4th IC space
- Craniodorsal to the olecranon
Where is the aortic valve
- Left side
- 4th ICS
- Ventral to the shoulder
Where is the left AV valve (M) located
- Left side
- 5th ICS
- Caudodorsal to the olecranon
How many branches are found coming off the aortic arch in horses (what are its/there name)
- 1
- Brachiocephalic trunk
What branches come off of the brachiocephalic trunk
- Left subclavian a
- Right subclavian a
- Right common carotid a
- Left common carotid a
- Bicarotid trunk
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What branches does the costocervical trunk
- Provides the first 4 IC arteries
- Dorsal scapular a.
- Supreme
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Describe the deep cervical a.
- Goes very deep to the nuchal ligament
- Origin varies
- Courses toward the head to supply the cervical structures & musculature in the caudal neck region
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Describe the vertebral a
- Supplies the cervical bones, spinal nerves, & spinal arteries
- Both vertebral a come together to supply the brain w/ the basilar a.
- Courses cranially through the transverse foramen through the alar foramen & lateral vertebral foramen then enters the vertebral canal
What are the arrows pointing at
vertebral a & v
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What does the superficial cervical a supply
- Craniolateral shoulder region
- Esp pec muscles
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Describe the internal thoracic a
- Ventral IC
- Runs all the way to the xiphyoid
- Branches into the ventral intercostal aa & the cranial epigastric a.
What does the ventral intercostal aas supply
supplies the ventral part of the thoracic wall
What does the cranial epigastric a supply
Supplies the ventral abdominal wall
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What is a diff in found in equine veins
- There is a bijugular trunk that makes up the cranial vena cava
- The subclavians join with the bijuglar trunk
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