Directional Terms
The front of the animal
What is Anterior?
The rear of the animal
What is Posterior?
Latin adjective for a dog
What is Canine?
Mature female bovine.
What is a cow?
What are directional abbreviations?
Toward the head
What is cranial?
Toward the tail
What is Caudal?
Latin adjective for a pig.
What is porcine?
Mature female cat.
What is a queen or a dame?
Can be used to provide information to other employees in the vet hospital or to help prepare animals and provide information for their needed care.
What are informational abbreviations?
Along the back, uppermost surface
What is dorsal?
Along the belly, undermost surface.
What is Ventral?
Latin adjective for mice.
What is a Murine?
A castrated male pig.
What is a barrow?
HR
What is the abbreviation for heart rate?
The plane that splits an animal into dorsal and ventral regions.
What is the frontal plane?
The plane that splits the animal into right and left regions from the head to the tail.
What is the median plane?
Latin adjective for a turtle or a tortoise.
What is a testudine?
A mature female lizard.
What is a cow?
Dx
What is the abbreviation for diagnosis?
Any plane that runs parallel to the median plane.
What is the Sagittal plane?
What is the Transverse plane?
Latin adjective for a lizard.
What is a lacertine?
A mature female ferret.
What is a Jill?
TID
What is the abbreviation for three times a day