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Head to Toe
VMT Chapter 4
| Barrel | Capacity of the chest or trunk |
| Bars | Raised V-shaped structure on distal surface of hoof |
| Cannon bone | Third metacarpal / metatarsal of the horse, also called the shin bone |
| Cheek | Fleshy portion of either side of the face; forms the sides 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 |
| Coffin joint | Distal interphalangeal joint in ungulates |
| Corners | Third incisors of equine |
| Coronary Band | Junction between the skin and the horn of the hoof, also called the coronet |
| 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 | Area of the limb between the pastern and the cannon |
| Fetlock joint | Joint between the cannon bone and long pastern bone in ungulates |
| Flank | Side of the body between the ribs and ilium |
| Forelock | 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 | Muscular portion of the hindlimbs between the stifle and hock, also called the crus |
| Heart Girth | Circumference of the chest jut caudal to the shoulders and cranial to the back |
| Heel | Caudal region of the hoof that has an area of soft tissue called the bulb |
| hock | Tarsal joint, also called the tarsus |
| Hoof | Hard covering of the digit in ungulates |
| Hoof wall | Hard, horny outer layer of the covering of the digit in ungulates |
| Knee | Carpus in ungulates |
| Loin | Lumbar region of the back between the thorax and pelvis |
| Mane | Region of long, coarse hair at the dorsal border of the neck and terminating at the poll |
| Muzzle | Two nostrils 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, last rib, and the thigh muscles |
| Pastern | Area of the limb between the fetlock and hoof |
| Pastern joint | Joint between the long and short pastern bone in ungulates |
| Poll | Top of the head |
| Quarter | lateral or medial side of the hoof |
| Shoulder | Region around the large joint between the humerus and scapula |
| Sole | Palmar or plantar surface of the hoof; irregular crescent-shaped bottom of hoof |
| Stifle joint | Femorotibial and femoropatellar joint in quadrupeds |
| Tail | Caudal part of the vertebral column |
| Tail head | Base of the tail where it connects to the body |
| Teat | Nipple of mammary gland |
| Toe | Cranial 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 |
| Brisket | Mass of connective tissue, muscle, and fat covering the cranioventral part of the ruminant chest between the forelegs |
| Dewclaw | Accessory claw of the ruminant foot that projects caudally from the fetlock |
| Dewlap | Loose skin under the throat and neck, which may become pendulous in some breeds of cattle |
| Forearm | Part of the foreleg supported by the radius and ulna, between the elbow and knee |
| Forehead | Region of the head between the eyes and ears |
| Hooks | Protrusion of the wing of the ilium on the dorsolateral area of ruminants |
| Pedal | Pertaining to the foot |
| Pins | Protrusion of the ischium bones just lateral to the base of the tail in ruminants |
| Switch | Tuft of hair at the end of the tail in bovine |
| Chine | Thoracic region of the back |
| Horn butt | Poll region between the eyes and ears of previous horn growth |
| Rump | Sacral to tailhead region of the back |
| Wattle | Appendages suspended from the head usually under the chin in goats |
| Ham | Musculature of the upper thigh in swine |
| Jowl | External throat, especially when fat or loose skin is present in swine |
| Snout | Upper lip and apex of the nose of swine |
| Chin | Rostroventral protrusion of the mandible |
| Pinna | Projecting part of the ear lying outside the head; the auricle, in dogs and cats |
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