The protein in RBCs that carries oxygen.
What is hemoglobin?
Surprise Guinea Pig. What breed is it?
What is a skinny pig?
Largest organ in the body.
What is the skin?
The patella is this type of bone.
What is a sesamoid bone?
What are granulocytes?
The largest organ in the lymphatic system.
What is the spleen?
Superficial layer of skin.
What is the epidermis?
Term for part of the skeletal system that consists of the skull, vertebrae, ribs, and sternum.
What is the axial skeleton?
Cell responsible for hemostasis.
What is a thrombocyte or platelet?
This force causes lymph fluid to enter and leave tissue spaces.
What is pressure?
This connects the skin to the underlying muscle layer, and is the site of SQ injections.
What is hypodermis?
Site of blood cell formation.
What is the bone marrow?
The only WBC that does not do phagocytosis.
What is a lymphocyte?
This type of blood cell is most common in lymph.
What is a lymphocyte?
The layer of skin that makes up the inner layer of a hoof.
What is the dermis?
Name for the first (most cranial) cervical vertebrae.
What is the atlas?
The term for blood formation.
What is hematopoiesis?
Small kidney-bean-shaped structures located at various points along the lymph vessels.
What is a lymph node?
Gland in the skin that secretes sebum.
What is a sebaceous gland?
Name for the elbow.
What is the olecranon?
The largest white blood cell in circulation, responsible for phagocytosis and antigen processing and presentation.
What is a monocyte?
This lymph organ protects the respiratory and digestive systems.
What are tonsils?
Tiny muscle attached to the base of some hair roots.
What is an arrector pili muscle?
The name for the main shaft of a long bone.
What is a diaphysis?
Type of lymphocyte that activates B-lymphocytes and is also known as a memory cell.
What is a T-lymphocyte?
This lymph organ is of importance primarily in young animals, located in the caudal neck/cranial thoracic region.
What is the thymus?
The part of skin in which subcutaneous injections are given.
What is the hypodermis?
The name for the growth plate in a bone.
What is a metaphysis?