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VETT 118
Skeletal and Muscular Systems
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Common name for the tarsus | Hock |
| Joints that a freely movable joints of the body | Synovial |
| Correct order of vertebral segments is; | Cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, coccygeal |
| A fibrous band of connective tissue that connects bone to bone | Ligament |
| Acetabelum is the? | Large socket of the pelvic bone |
| The three parts of the pelvis are; | Ilium, ischium, pubis |
| The digits that contain bones are called what? | Phalanges |
| Components of the axial skeleton include what? | Skull, auditory ossicles. Hyoid, vertebrae, ribs, and sternum |
| Another term for growth plate | Physis |
| Bones of the front limb include | Humerus, radius, ulna, carpal, metacarpals, phalanges |
| Rectus means | Straight |
| Muscles can be classified as? | Voluntary, involuntary, cardiac |
| When a muscle becomes shorter and thicker | Contraction |
| Levator muscles do what to a body part? | Raises |
| Fibrous band of connective tissue that connects muscle to bone | Tendon |
| Looseness means | laxity |
| Protrusion of a body part through tissues that normally contain it is called what | Hernia |
| A muscle that forms a tight band | Sphincter |
| Surgical removal of a muscle or part of a muscle | Myectomy |
| Abnormal condition or disease of a muscle | Myopathy |
| Describes the shaft of a long bone | Diaphysis |
| Where are tarsal bones found | Hock |
| What is the manubrium | Cranial portion of the sternum |
| Describes freely movable joints of the body | Diarthroses |
| The opening in a bone through which blood vessels, nerves, and ligaments pass | Meatus |
| The acetabulum is commonly called | Hip socket |
| Muscles located above the pelvic axis | Epaxial muscles |
| Muscles under voluntary control are called | Skeletal |
| Muscle that bends a limb at its joint or decreases joint angle | Flexor |
| P1 | Long pastern |
| P2 | Short pastern |
| P3 | Coffin bone |
| Tarsus | Hock |
| Splint bone | Metacarpal/metatarsal II and IV in equine |
| Fetlock joint | metacarpo/metatarsophalangeal joint of equine and ruminants |
| Pastern joint | Connection between phalanx I and II in equine and ruminants |
| Coffin joint | Distal interphalangial joint of phalanx 2 and 3 in equine and ruminants |
| Knee | Carpus in large animals |
| Stifle | Synovial joint located between the femur and tibia, also known as the femorotibial joint |
| Clavicle | Collarbone |
| Cannon bone | Metacarpal/tarsal III in equine and II and IV in ruminants |
| Dewclaw | Variable digit depending on species digit I in dogs, digits II and V in ruminants |
| Sternum | Breastbone |
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