Bones
Bones consisting of a long shaft and two ends such as femur.
What is a long bone
Combining form for joint.
What is arthr/o?
The skull, vertebrae, and rib cage.
What is the Axial Skeleton?
Most proximal bone of the hindlimb.
What is the Pelvic bone?
Fracture not protruding out of the skin.
What is a simple/ closed fracture?
Unpaired bones with odd shapes such as vertebrae.
What are irregular bones?
Freely movable, rotating joint of the skull and Atlas.
What is a Pivot/ Trochoid joint?
Forelimbs and hindlimbs part of the skeleton.
What is the Appendicular Skeleton?
Large sesamoid bone of the rear limb.
What is the Patella?
Fracture where the bone punctures through the skin.
What is an open or displaced fracture?
Small bones embedded in a tendon.
What are sesamoid bones?
Provides a wide range of motion in many directions.
What are ball and socket joints?
Long bone of the forelimb.
What is the Humerus or Radius or Ulna?
Joint that houses the Patella.
What is the Stifle?
Abnormal development of pelvic joint where the femur doesn't fit properly into the acetabulum seen in large breed dogs.
What is hip dysplasia?
Covers the end of bones.
What is cartilage?
Joints of the stifle and elbow.
What are hinge joints?
Vertebrae located directly caudal to the Thoracic Vertebrae.
What are the Lumbar Vertebrae?
Large socket of the pelvic bone that forms a joint with the Femur.
What is the acetabulum?
The three types of muscle.
What are skeletal, smooth, and cardiac?
Sinus-containing bones like the frontal bone in the skull.
What are pneumatic bones?
Area of short bones in rows on the forelimb.
What is the carpal joint/ carpus?
Proximal protrusion of the Ulna.
What is the Olecranon?
Another name for the Tarsus/ Tarsal joint.
What is the hock?
Surgical removal of a claw/ declaw.
What is Onychectomy?