A & P Chapter 1
The directional term that means "towards to head" but not on the head.
What is cranial?
The bone that forms the forehead region of the skull.
What is frontal bone?
Firm connective tissue bands that help stabilize the bones that make up a joint and help hold the joint together.
What is ligaments?
Water is the universal _____.
What is solvent?
The number of basic tissue types found in an animal's body.
What is 4?
Gross anatomy is known as.
What is macroscopic anatomy?
A hole in a bone.
What is foramen?
The movement of an extremity away from the median plane of the body.
What is abduction?
The most abundant organic molecules in the body.
What is proteins?
The cells involved in the healing process of the bone.
What is osteoblasts?
The reference plane that runs down the center of the body lengthwise and divides into equal left and right halves.
What is medial plane.
The face bones that are elongated in dolichocephalic dogs.
What is nasal bones.
The main movements possible in a gliding joint in a 4-legged animal.
What is flexion and extension?
Substances that are catalyzed by enzymes.
What is substrates?
The type of tissue that forms the sweat glands.
What is epithelial tissue?
The process by which physiologic processes collectively and actively maintain balance in the structures, functions, and properties of the body.
What is homeostasis?
A depressed or sunken area on the surface of a bone.
What is fossa?
The bones that fuse to make up the acetabulum.
What is ilium, ischium, pubis?
The number of nucleotides that are needed to create a code for an amino acid.
What is 3?
The body cavity that contains the heart.
What is the cranial thoracic cavity?
When cattle are dehorned, the corneal process of _____ bone is removed.
What is frontal?
The two bones that form the stifle joint.
What is femur and tibia?
Electrolytes are _____.
What is ionized salts?
Dewclaws in dogs are found on the ____ surface of the leg.
What is medial?
Starting from the outside, the correct sequence of the ear bones in the middle ear.
What is malleus, incus, stapes?
The obturator foramina is found in the ____.
What is pelvis?
The 4 elements that make up 96% of the matter found in all living organisms.
What is hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen?
All the organs in the thoracic cavity are covered by a thin membrane.
What is parietal?
A flat, articular surface that allows a rocking motion between bones.
What is facet?
The hock is made up of ____.
What is tarsal bones?
All proteins contain.
What is carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen?
An animal's ears are located ____ to its eyes.
What is caudal?
The face bone that houses the upper incisor teeth in a horse.
What is incisive?
Another name for the navicular bone in horses.
What is distal sesamoid?
Water and fats do not mix well because fats are.
What is hydrophobic?
The shoulder of a camel is ___ to its carpus.
What is proximal?
Large blood vessels, lymph vessels, and nerves enter large long bones through ____.
What is nutrient foramen?
Splint bones in horses are ____.
What is vestigial metacarpal bones?
Hair is an example of a ____ protein.
What is structural?
The location of a cut on the palmar surface of a dog's leg.
What is the back surface of the front leg below the carpus?
Fractures of the ____ of long bones are especially common in young animals.
What is epiphyseal plate?
The bone in the appendicular skeleton that has an olecranon process.
What is ulna?
The group of lipids that contains prostaglandins that help mediate an inflammatory reaction.
What is eicosanoids?
A dog is standing on the exam table with its front legs up on the chest of its owner. The surface of the dog that is touching the examination table is ____.
What is plantar?
The cribriform plate is contained in the _____ bone.
What is ethmoid?
An example of an irregular bone.
What is patella?
The area of the dorsal surface of an animal that you would look for the L3 vertebra.
What is abdominal area?
The fetlock joint in horses is located between the ____ and ____ bones.
What is metacarpal and proximal phalanx?
Face bone that forms the rostral part of the hard palate.
What is maxillary?
The correct order of bones on the thoracic limb starting distally and working proximally.
What is phalanges, metacarpal bones, carpal bones, radius, ulna, humerus, scapula.
The face bone that forms the caudal portion of the hard plate.
What is palatine?