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The weight bearing bone of shin.
What is the tibia?
The direction toward the head
What is cranial?
These two enzymes are common measured to assess liver function
What are ALP and ALT?
The device that measure blood oxygen saturation
What is a pulse oximeter?
A plasma filled pocket under a patients skin caused as a complication of a surgical procedure
What is a seroma?
The long bone associated with the shoulder
What is the humerus?
The direction towards the tail
What is caudal?
These two enzymes are commonly measured to assess kidney function
What are BUN and Creatinine?
The waveform that shows electrical activity of a patient's heart
What is an ECG/EKG?
The medical term for a bruise
What is a subdermal hematoma?
Also known as the shoulder blade
What is the scapula?
The direction towards the patients back
What is dorsal?
This blood test, ran in a centrifuge, can assess a patients hydration status
What is a PCV?
The process of measuring a patients end tidal carbon dioxide
What is capnography?
The medical term for a dislocation
What is a luxation?
The first cervical vertebrae
What is the atlas?
The direction towards the patients abdomen
What is ventral?
This value, obtained with a CBC, can diagnose if a patient is anemic
What is the RBC count?
The type of blood pressure measurement that uses a velcro cuff
What is oscillometric AKA non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP)
A necrotic piece of bone
What is a sequestrum?
The five types of vertebrae
What are cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral and coccygeal?
When describing something on the head alone, this term mean towards the nose
What is rostral?
These two tests ran in conjunction can assess a patients coagulation cascade
What are PT, and aPTT?
The type of blood pressure measurement that uses a catheter inserted directly into an artery
What is invasive blood pressure (IBP) monitoring?
The term for when an eyeball is no longer in the socket
What is proptosed?