Joints
Located between atlas and axis
What is the Atlanto-axial joint?
The atlas is what vertebra
What is the first cervical vertebra?
True or false: False ribs attach to the sternum through costal cartilage
What is true?
These are the three bones that make up the thoracic girdle.
What are the scapula, clavicle, coracoid?
These are the three bones that make up the pelvic limb
What are the ilium, ischium, and pubis?
The scapulohumeral joint connects this.
What is the pectoral (shoulder) girdle?
The axis performs this function
What is carrying the head and assisting with rotation?
These ribs have no attachment to the sternum
What are floating ribs?
These two bones make up the antebrachium.
What is the Radius and Ulna?
These two bones make up the crus
What are the tibia and fibula?
The femur and tibia are connected by this
What is the stifle?
The dorsal spinous process assists with this
What is protection?
Humans have this number of pairs of ribs.
What is 12?
Humans, dogs, and cats have this many metacarpal bones.
What is 5?
Horses walk on this digit
What is the 3rd digit?
Involves humerus, radius, and ulna
What is the elbow
Most animals have this number of cervical vertebrae
What is 7?
This animal has 18 pairs of ribs with 8 true ribs, 4 false ribs, and 1 floating rib.
What is a horse?
The dewclaw is considered this digit
What is the 1st digit
This bone makes up the pins on cattle
What is the Ischium?
4 joints in horse legs
What are the metacarpophalangeal, proximal interphalangeal, distal interphalangeal, and metatarsophalangeal joints?
Name the vertebrae from most cranial to most caudal
What is the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, caudal (coccygeal) vertebrae?
This common pet has 13 pairs of ribs with 9 true ribs and 4 false ribs.
What is a dog?
Name the bones in the pectoral limb from proximal to distal
What is the shoulder (scapula, clavicle, coracoid), humerus, radius/ulna, carpus, metacarpus, and digits?
Name the bones in the pelvic limb from proximal to distal
What is the pelvis, femur, patella, tibia/fibula, tarsus, metatarsus, and digits?