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Veterinary Tech
Veterinary technician terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| foramen | hole in a bone, passageway for blood vessels |
| fossa | depression or sunken area on a bone, occupied by muscles and tendons, feline mandible |
| articular surface | a smooth area that forms joints, covered with hyaline cartilage |
| condoyle | a large round surface, muscles attach |
| head | spherical shape, proximal end of long bone, femur, humerus |
| facet | flat, bones attach to bones, carpal/tarsal bones |
| processes | a lump or bump on a bone, scapula |
| irregular bones | bones that don't fit into a category, vertebrae |
| short bones | bones shaped like small cubes, carpal/tarsal bones |
| flat bones | thin and flat, scalpula |
| long bones | bones longer than they are wide, feline femur |
| epiphyses | ends of long bones, distal/proximal |
| diaphysis | the long part of a long bone |
| epiphyseal plates | long bone growth plates |
| axial skeleton | the skull, hyoid bone, spinal column, ribs, and sternum |
| appendicular skeleton | thoracic (front) and pelvic (hind) limb bones |
| barrel | trunk of the body, made up of the ribcage and abdomen |
| flank | lateral surface of the abdomen between ribcage and hindlegs |
| withers | dorsal to scalpus |
| knee | carpus of hoofed animal |
| cannon | large metacarpal or metatarsal bone |
| pastern | area of proximal phalanx |
| hock | tarsus |
| stifile | femorotibal/femoropatellar joint (similar to human knee) |
| fetlock | joint between cannon bone and proximal phalanx of hoofed animals |
| muzzle | rostral part of the face formed by maxillary and nasal bones |
| tailhead | dorsal part of the base of the tail |
| brisket | at the base of the neck between front legs that covers the cranial end of the sternum |
| poll | top of the head between the ears |
| deep | towards the center |
| superficial | towards the surface |
| where the epiphyseal plates are located | between the shaft and ends of the bone |
| epiphyseal plate allows bones to | lengthen |
| another name for epiphyseal plate is | growth plate |
| the tail vertebrae | coccygeal |
| the second cervical vertebra | axis |
| vertebrae largest in size and support abdominal region | lumbar |
| fused vertebrae of the pelvic region | sacral |
| vertebrae that articulate with the ribs | thoracic |
| vertebrae in the neck | cervical |
| all bones of thoracic limb from proximal to distal | scapula, humerus, ulna, radius, carpals, metacarpals, phalanges |
| the long bones in the upper arm | humerus |
| the long bones in the upper "thigh" region | femur |
| the large bones of the lower leg | tibia |
| scapula | shoulder blade |
| phosolipids | arranged in 2 layers in the plasma membrane |
| nucleoli | assembly sites for ribosomal particles |
| nucleus | control center, chromosomes within |
| mitochondria | energy for cell use, double membrane bound |
| microfilaments | contractile protein with ability to shorten with cytosol |
| microvili | fingerlike folds in the plasma membrane that increas the surface area for absorption |
| lysosome | membraneous structure/vesicles that contain digestive enzymes and are filled with hydrolitic |
| inclusion bodies | nonliving structures in cytoplasm vesicles for storage |
| integral proteins | protein channels in the plasma membrane that allow only certain substances to enter |
| haploid | one half the chromosome number |
| chromatin | threadlike granules dispersed in nucleus, dna, regulates protein |
| cytosol | gelatinous fluid that has organelles, a medium for transport |
| endoplasmic reticulium | in cytoplasm and is a transport system, can be smooth or rough |
| nucleolus | contains rna, location of ribosomal subunit synthesis |
| nuclear envelope | double membrane bound, separates nucleus from cytoplasm |
| cell membrane | bilayer with proteins, controls substances into and out of the cell, has 2 layers: hydrophilic and hydrophobic |
| cilia | hairlike structures on the surface of a cell, propels mucus and debris across a cell |
| ribosomes | site of protein synthesis, rna |
| cytoplasm | inner substance of the cell, fluid that houses organelles |
| cytoskeleton | internal structure of a cell, protein arranged |
| organelles | highly organized subcellular living system |
| peroxisomes | sacs found in the cytoplasm with oxidase enzymes, detoxifys molecules |
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