Final Stuff

Question 1

What gland is located at the base of a bird’s tail?

Answer 1

Uropygial gland

Question 2

What is the hollow tubular portion of the feather called? (sticks into the skin follicle)

Answer 2

Calamus (quill)

Question 3

What makes up the vanes of a feather?

Answer 3

Barbs and barbules

Question 4

Bids pigments

1) black/grey
2) blue
3) red/orange/yellow
4) pink/brown/reds/greens

Answer 4

1) melanin
2) sunlight
3) Carotenoids (plants)
4) Porphyrines

Question 5

Name for the featherless areas of a bird? T/F: these are preferred surgical sites?

Answer 5

Apteria; True

Question 6

Skin fold on flexor surface of elbow?

Answer 6

Propatagium

Question 7

4 types of toe arrangements? Which are chickens?

Answer 7

1) Ansiodactylie (chicken)
2) Zygodactylie
3) Tridactylie
4) Didactlyie

Question 8

3 primary venipuncture sites of bird?

Answer 8

1) R jugular
2) wing vein
3) medial metatarsal vein

Question 9

What is pinioning?

Answer 9

Transecting the tendon of the extensor carpi radialis to make bird flightless

Question 10

What do these structures connect/open to?

1) Choana
2) Infundibular Cleft
3) Glottis

Answer 10

1) oral cavity to nasal cavity
2) auditory tubes
3) to trachea

Question 11

What is the bird’s organ of vocalization?

Answer 11

Syrinx

Question 12

Name of structure connecting between two ribs?

Answer 12

Uncinate process

Question 13

Which bones contribute to triosseus canal? What passes through it?

Answer 13

Clavicle, coracoid, and scapula; tendon of supracoracoideus muscle

Question 14

The sciatic nerve is important for what disease?

Answer 14

Marek’s disease

Question 15

Where does O2 extraction occur in birds?

Answer 15

Parabronchi

Question 16

Respiratory pathway of birds?

Answer 16

caudal air sacs, lungs (O2 extraction in parabronchi), cranial air sacs, then exhaled

Question 17

Name the portions of female repro tract from proximal to distal?

Answer 17

Infundibulum
Magnum
Isthmus (longest)
Shell gland (uterus)
Vagina

Question 18

How long does the egg spend in each segment of the tract?

Answer 18

Infundibulum---15mins
Magnum--3hrs
Isthmus--1 hr
Shell gland--20 hrs (longest time)
Vagina--seconds

Question 19

Which ovary develops? (L/R)

Answer 19

Left

Question 20

What teeth are the needle teeth? How many are there?

Answer 20

third incisior and canine

8 total

Question 21

What structures are most affected by Atrophic rhinitis?

Answer 21

nasal bone and nasal conchae

Question 22

Which tonsils are examined on the pluck at slaughter?

Answer 22

Paraepiglotic tonsils

Question 23

What side is best for cranial vena cava puncture and why? What are the landmarks?

Answer 23

Right to avoid damage to left phrenic nerve and thoracic duct
Landmarks: manubrium and grater tubercle

Question 24

Which nerve is blocked:

1) between lateral canthus of eye and base of horn along temporal line?
2) lateral canthis to base of ear (along zygomatic arch)

Answer 24

1) Cornual

2) Auriculopalpebral

Question 25

Horn Innervation

1) Large ruminants
2) Small ruminants

Answer 25

1) cornual

2) great auricular, cornual, infratrochlear

Question 26

Facial vessel used for pulse in

1) Ox
2) goats

Answer 26

1) facial artery

2) transverse facial

Question 27

Which spp. have a traceal bronchus?

Answer 27

Pigs and ruminants

Question 28

Which nerves are involved in anesthetizing the flank region?

Answer 28

T13, L1, L2

Question 29

What muscle group is blocked by the proximal paravertebral blocked that isn’t with the distal? Area of skin?

Answer 29

Epaxial muscles; all skin of flank (distal only blocks below stifle)

Question 30

Fremitus is a term related to what structure?

Answer 30

Uterine artery

Question 31

The pudendal nerve gives what branch to the penis?

Answer 31

Dorsal nerve of the penis

Question 32

Which two structures make up the lactiferous sinu?

Answer 32

Gland sinus and teat sinus

Question 33

Caruncle shape in

1) cows
2) sheep/goats

Answer 33

1) convex

2) concave

Question 34

Which animals have a suburethral diverticulum?

Answer 34

cows, sows, gilts

Question 35

Two common place for calculi to lodge?

Answer 35

Urethral process and sigmoid flexure

Question 36

Which bones are fused to make the bovine metacarpus?

Answer 36

3 and 4

Question 37

Describe the fibula of the bovine?

Answer 37

Proximal end is fused with lateral condyle of tibia;
distal end (lateral malleolus) is a separate bone

Question 38

What limb artery can be used for pulse in cattle?

Answer 38

Saphenous

Question 39

Where does Dorsal Common Digital Vein III Drain:

1) Forelimb
2) Hindlimb

Answer 39

1) accessory cephalic

2) cranial branch of lateral saphenous

Question 40

What nerve is responsible for hindlimb digit extension in cattle?

Answer 40

Common peroneal

Question 41

Which two muscles are part of the reciprocal mechanism?

Answer 41

Peroneus tertius

Superficial digital flexor