The Hooves & Teeth
The teeth found in the back of the horse's mouth that are used to grind food.
What are molars?
The part of a horse’s external anatomy that refers to the top of the horse's head and between the ears.
What is the poll?
The blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood AWAY from the heart to the rest of the body.
What are arteries?
This body system protects and supports the body tissue and internal organs.
What is the skeletal system?
This structure is located in the neck, and secretes hormones regulating growth and development, and the rate of metabolism.
What is the thyroid gland?
These teeth are used to determine age in horses.
What are incisors?
The main structural protein found in hair, wool, horns and feathers.
What is keratin?
The blood vessels that carry deoxygenated blood BACK TO the heart from the rest of the body.
What are veins?
The system that is responsible for locomotion and obtaining food.
What is the musculoskeletal system?
This structure is located at the base of the brain and controls growth and development.
What is the pituitary gland?
An extension of the hoof wall, it runs along the side of the frog. The same word can be used to refer to rapping or freestyle rhyming.
What are the bars?
Food such as grass or hay.
What are forages?
This part of the horse is located between the cannon bone and the pastern bone. It can sometimes be confused with the term for the lock of hair that falls in front of the horse's poll.
What is the Fetlock?
This body system moves blood throughout the body.
What is the circulatory system?
Wobbler syndrome, a neurological deficit that causes ataxia (incoordination), is the malformation or compression of this part of the horse.
What is the spinal cord?
The part of the hoof that joins the sole to the inner wall.
What is the White Line?
Something which causes an internal or external body response.
What are stimuli?
The large structure behind the stomach, which releases digestive enzymes. This also releases insulin to handle glucose in the body.
What is the pancreas?
The body system responsible for breaking food down into nutrients to be absorbed to be used by the body.
This system is closely linked to the brain and is responsible for producing hormones that regulate metabolism and other body processes.
What is the endocrine system?
Sometimes referred to as "Biological Velcro," these tiny finger-like projections attach the coffin bone to the hoof wall.
What are Laminae?
This disorder in horses is often caused by social or environmental changes and is characterized by extremely low body condition.
What is anorexia?
The structures located above each kidney that help control heart rate and blood pressure.
What are the adrenal glands?
The system that protects the body from dehydration, overheating, and freezing. Hint: It includes the largest organ in the human body.
What is the integumentary system?
Botulism in horses is an often fatal, neuroparalytic disease caused by the ingestion or infection of toxins produced by the bacteria Clostridium botulinum.
This type of medicine is administered to a horse that has contracted Botulism.
What is an anti-toxin?