Veterinary Terminology ~ Assignment 2 Flash Cards

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Title: Veterinary Terminology ~ Assignment 2
Description: flashcards for Veterinary Terminology course I took online Winter 2009
Number of Cards: 40
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Author: nschudel
Created: 2009-03-23
Tags: musculo-skeletal nervous positional system terms
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    • Question
    • Answer
    • Side 3
    • Transports nutrients and other substances throughout the body
    • cardiovascular
    • Produces cells that will form an embryo
    • reproductive
    • Carries electrical messages to and from the brain and spinal cord
    • nervous
    • Produces urine
    • Urinary
    • Includes the esophagus and intestines
    • Digestive
    • Provides support and movement to the body
    • musculoskeletal
    • Secretes hormones and controls organs distant to it
    • Endocrine
    • Receives environmental messages and transmits them to the brain
    • skin/sense
    • Moves air in and out of the body (_________ ) and is essentially linked to ____
    • Cardiovascular
    • The head is ___ to the shoulder
    • Cranial
    • The hock is ___ to the foot.
    • proximal
    • The frog on the left hind hoof of a horse is on the ___ surface.
    • Plantar
    • The tail head on a cow is ___ to the switch.
    • distal
    • The brisket is ___ to the shoulder on a standing cow.
    • Ventral
    • The poll is ___ to the wattle on a standing goat.
    • Cranial
    • The muzzle of a dog is ___ to the rump.
    • rostral
    • The croup of a horse is ___ to the withers.
    • Caudal
    • The bottom of the right front foot of a cat is considered the ____ surface.
    • palmar
    • The withers of a horse are ___ to the elbow.
    • dorsal
    • The outside of a dogs leg is:
    • Lateral
    • The ___ plane divides the body into equal left and right portions.
    • Midsaggital
    • The dorsal plane divides the body into:
    • Back and belly parts
    • The inside of a cows back leg is the ___ surface
    • Medial
    • A perpendicular section to the long axis of a horses leg is in a ___ plane.
    • Transverse
    • A farmer calls and tells you that his cow has cut her teat. You know that the teat is part of the:
    • Udder
    • The crest on a horse, cow or goat is:
    • the dorsal margin of the neck
    • The muzzle on a cow, horse, goat or sheep is___ to the forehead.
    • Rostral
    • The cannon is __ to the fetlock of a horse.
    • Proximal
    • If a dog is in lateral recumbency. It is:
    • On its side
    • Term: To look into a joint __________________
    • arthroscopy
    • Term: A mass or tumor of cartilage _______________
    • chondroma
    • Term: To cut into the skull_____________________
    • craniotomy
    • Term: Pertaining to a ligament _________________
    • ligamentous
    • Term: Inflammation of muscle _________________
    • myositis
    • Term: Pertaining to muscle __________________
    • muscular
    • Term: Between vertebrae ___________________
    • intervertebral
    • Term: Inflammation of a tendon _________________
    • tendinitis
    • Term: Inflammation of bone and joints ____________
    • osteoarthritis
    • Term: Abnormal development or growth of bone marrow ________
    • myelodysplasia
    • knee cap
    • Patella