What is the largest organ of the body?
What size suture is used for large animal surgery?
1, 2, 3, or 4
Part of the body housing the digestive organs.
Abdomen
Incomplete break caused by bending of the bone in an arc shape; a break most commonly found in long bones.
Front of the Animal
Anterior
What are the 3 layers of the skin?
Epidermis, Dermis, Hypodermis
What size suture is used for small animal surgery?
3-0, 2-0, or 1-0
The soft spot in the top of the skull; the location of un-calcified bone at birth.
Fontanel
Incomplete break parallel to the bone and often caused by bones pushing against other bones.
Front of the face closest to the nose.
Rostral
What is the deepest layer of the epidermis?
Stratum Basale
What size suture is used for Eyes and fine anatomy?
6-0, 5-0, or 4-0
Framework of the bone cartilage and other non bending materials in a body.
Skeleton
A break due to twisting of the shaft of the bone; bone can be broken anywhere and can lead to oblique, comminuted or fissured breaks as well.
Spiral
Toward the tail
Caudal
What is the middle layer of the Epidermis?
Stratum Granulosum
What suture is individually tied?
The Simple Interrupted Pattern Suture
The body part housing the heart and lungs; located between the neck and diaphragm.
Thorax
Complete break across the bone and perpendicular to the bone.
Related to the sole of the foot.
Plantar
What layer contains exocrine glands?
Dermis
What suture is NOT individually tied?
The simple continuous pattern
The study of structures in the body that can only be viewed with a microscope.
Histology
List the order of bone repair
soft callus - hard callus - bone callus - compact bone
Part of the limbs furthest from the body
Distal