Cardiovascular
This chamber of the heart pumps blood to the lungs in mammals.
What is the right ventricle?
This part of the nervous system includes the Brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
This muscular organ mechanically breaks down food and mixes it with gastric juices.
What is the stomach?
Organs where oxygen from the air is exchanged for carbon dioxide.
What are lungs?
This endocrine gland produces insulin, which helps to regulate blood sugar levels.
What is the pancreas?
These blood vessels carry oxygen-rich blood away from the heart to the rest of the body.
What are arteries?
This part of the neuron transmits signals away from the cell body.
What is an axon?
In birds, this muscular organ, also called the ventriculus, grinds food (often with the help of swallowed stones.)
What is the gizzard?
The trachea can also be called this.
What is the windpipe?
The muscular organ in females that holds a developing baby.
What is the uterus?
These microscopic blood vessels connect arterioles to venules in the circulatory system.
What are capillaries?
This diagnostic test uses electrodes to measure the electrical activity in the brain.
What is an electroencephalogram (EEG)?
This small, tube-like structure is attached to the cecum and is thought to play a role in maintaining gut bacteria; in herbivorous animals, it’s often larger and aids in cellulose digestion.
What is the appendix?
What is the name of the paired respiratory organ by which oxygen is extracted from water?
Gills.
In most mammals, this structure connects the developing fetus to the mother’s uterus for nutrient and gas exchange.
What is the placenta?
These blood vessels return blood back to the heart.
What are veins?
This nervous system condition sometimes occurs in Dogs that have just woken up from anesthesia and is distinguished by uncontrolled movement of the eyes.
What is Nystagmus?
This section of the small intestine is primarily responsible for nutrient absorption and contains villi and microvilli to increase surface area.
What is the jejunum?
What animals have the highest oxygen consumption at rest?
Birds.
This connective tissue type surrounds muscles and separates them into compartments, also helping transmit force to tendons.
What is fascia?
These types of blood cells help your blood clot when you get a cut.
What are platelets?
This condition, often seen in large breed dogs, involves compression of the spinal cord in the neck due to vertebral instability or malformation.
What is wobbler syndrome?
This digestive enzyme, secreted by the pancreas, breaks down fats into fatty acids and glycerol.
What is lipase?
What are the many tiny air sacs of the lungs called that allow for rapid gas exchange?
Alveoli.
This ligament in dogs is commonly torn due to trauma or overuse and a surgery was developed in the 1990s for it (hint: TPLO)
What is the cruciate?