Veterinary Medical Terminology- Common Anatomical Terms for Equine Species
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Common Anatomical Terms for Equine Species
~VETT118 Veterinary Medical Terminology
San Juan College Veterinary Technician
~Veterinary Medical Terminology by: J. Romich
Chapter 4 Head to Toe (and Parts in Between)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Barrel | capacity of the chest of trunk |
| bars | raised V-shaped structure on distal surface of hoof |
| cannon bone | third metacarpal of the horse; also called the shin bone |
| cheek | fleshy portion of either side of the face; forms the side of the mouth and continues rostrally to the lips |
| chest | part of the body between the neck and abdomen; the thorax |
| chestnuts | horny, irregular growths on the medial surface of the equine leg; in the front legs, the chestnuts are just above the knee; in the rear legs the chestnuts are near the hock |
| coffin joint | distal interphalangeal joint (joint between the short pastern and the coffin bones [phalanges 11 and 111, respectively]) in ungulates |
| corners | third incisors of equine |
| coronary band (coronet) | junction between the skin and the horn of the hoof |
| crest | root of the mane |
| croup | muscular area around and above the tail base |
| cutters | second incisors of equine |
| dock | solid part of the equine tail |
| elbow | forelimb joint formed by distal humerus, proximal radius, and proximal ulna |
| ergot | small keratinized mass of horn in a small bunch of hair on the palmar or plantar aspects of the equine fetlock |
| fetlock | the area of the limb between the pastern and the cannon |
| fetlock joint | metarcapophalangeal and metatarsophalangeal joint (joint between the cannon bone and long pastern bone [phalanx 1] in ungulates |
| flank | side of the body between the ribs and ilium |
| forelock | in maned animals, the most cranial part of the mane hanging down between the ears and onto the forehead |
| frog | V-shaped pad of soft horn between the bars on the sole of the equine hoof. |
| gaskin (crus) | muscular portion of the hind-limb between the stifle and the hock |
| heart girth | circumference of the chest just caudal tot he shoulders and cranial to the back |
| heel | caudal region of the hoof that has an area of soft tissue called the bulb |
| hoof | hard covering of the digit in ungulates |
| hoofwall | hard, horny outer layer of the covering of the digit in ungulates |
| knee | carpus in ungulates |
| ungulates | animal with hoofs |
| loin | lumbar region of the back between the thorax and pelvis |
| mane | region of long, coarse hair at the dorsal boarder of the neck and terminating at the pole |
| muzzle | two nostrils (including the skin and fascia) and the muscles of the upper and lower lip |
| nippers | central incisors of equine |
| paralumbar fossa | hollow area of the flank whose boundaries are the transverse processes of the lumbar vertebrae (dorsally), the last rib (cranially), and the thigh muscles (caudally) |
| pastern | area of the limb between the fetlock and hoof |
| pastern joint | Proximal interphalangeal joint (joint between the long and short pastern bones [phalanges I and II, respectively]) in ungulates. |
| poll | the top of the head; occiput; nuchal crest |
| quarter | lateral or medial side of hoof |
| shoulder | region around the large joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula |
| sole | palmar and planter surface of the hoof; irregular crescent-shapped bottom of the hoof |
| stifle joint | femorotibial and femoropatellar joint in quadrupeds |
| tail | caudal part of the vertebrate column extending beyond the trunk |
| tail head | base of the tail where it connects to the body |
| teat | nipple of mammary gland |
| toe | crainal side of the hoof |
| udder | mammary gland |
| white line | fusion between the wall and sole of the hoof |
| withers | region over the dorsum where the neck joins the thorax and where the dorsal margins of the scapula lie just below the skin |
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