Specific parts
Caudal vertebrae
What is the vertebrae of the tail?
An downwards movement.
What is depression?
Towards/near the middle.
What is medial?
Moving a joint further than it should move.
What is hyperextention?
The largest bone of the leg.
What is the femur?
The vertebrae of the neck.
What is the cervical vertebrae?
An upward movement.
What is elevation?
Close to the front of the body.
What is superior?
A motion of a body part that is moving away from the midline.
What is abduction?
The proximal-most bone of the arm (the part of the arm closest to the body)
What is the humerus?
Mandibular fenestra
What is the hole on the middle of the jaw bone?
A movement of the joint where the angle between the two parts increases.
What is extension?
Away from the middle.
A bending movement of the joint that decreases the angle between the two parts.
What is flexion?
An opening that allows for the passage of other structures such as other bones or nerves.
What is foramen?
Antorbital fenestra
What is the hole in front of the eye on the skull?
When the wrists point downwards, palms facing the body.
What is pronation?
Near the center of origin of the body.
What is proximal?
1. Rotating something away from the midline. 2. Rotating something towards the midline
1. What is external rotation? 2. What is internal rotation?
The tip of the snout in most animals.
What is the premaxilla?
The bone that’s under the eye and makes up the cheek.
What is jugal?
When the wrists point upwards, towards the sky.
What is supination?
The front side.
What is anterior?
Pointing the ankle downwards, moving it away from the tibia.
What is plantarflexion?
The posterior bone of the pelvis that points backwards in most dinosaurs.
What is the ischium?