Chapter 4 - head to toe -horse

Question 1

What is the barrel on the horse?

Answer 1

capacity of the chest or trunk

Question 2

What are the bars on the hoof?

Answer 2

raised v-shaped structure on distal surface of hoof

Question 3

What is the frog?

Answer 3

V-shaped pad of soft horn between the bars on the sole of the equine hoof

Question 4

What is the cannon bone?

Answer 4

third metacarpal (metatarsal) of the horse; also called the skin bone

Question 5

What is the cheek?

Answer 5

fleshy portion of either side of the face; forms the sides of the mouth and continues rostrally to the lips

Question 6

What is the chest?

Answer 6

part of the body between the neck and abdomen; the thorax

Question 7

What is the chestnuts?

Answer 7

horny;irregular growths on the medial surface of the equine leg; in the front legs, the chestnuts are just above the knee; in the rear legs, the chestnuts are near the hock

Question 8

What is the coffin joint?

Answer 8

distal interphalangeal joint (joint between the short pastern and coffin bones

Question 9

What is the corners?

Answer 9

third incisors of equine

Question 10

What is the coronary band?

Answer 10

junction between the skin and the horn of the hoof; also called the coronet

Question 11

What is the crest?

Answer 11

root of the mane - toward top of the head

Question 12

What is the croup?

Answer 12

muscular area around and above the tail base

Question 13

What is the cutters?

Answer 13

second incisors of equine

Question 14

What is the dock?

Answer 14

solid part of the equine tail

Question 15

What is the ergot?

Answer 15

small keratinized mass of horn in a small bunch of hair on the palmar or plantar aspects of the equine fetlock

Question 16

What is the elbow?

Answer 16

forelimb joint formed by distal humerus proximal radius, and proximal ulna

Question 17

What is the fetlock?

Answer 17

area of the limb between the pastern and the cannon

Question 18

What is the fetlock joint?

Answer 18

metacarpophalangeal and metatarsophalangeal joint (joint between the cannon bone and long pastern bone

Question 19

What is the flank?

Answer 19

side of the body between the ribs and ilium

Question 20

What is the forelock?

Answer 20

in maned animals, the most cranial part of the mane hanging down between the ears and onto the forehead

Question 21

What is the gaskin?

Answer 21

muscular portion of the hindlimb between the stifle and hock; also called the crus

Question 22

What is the heart girth?

Answer 22

circumference of the chest just caudal to the shoulders and cranial to the back - getting this measurement can determine how much a horse weighs

Question 23

What is the heel?

Answer 23

caudal region of the hoof that has an area of soft tissue called the bulb

Question 24

What is the hock?

Answer 24

tarsal joint

Question 25

What is the hoof?

Answer 25

hard covering of the digit in ungulates

Question 26

What is the hoof wall?

Answer 26

hard horny outer layer of the covering of the digit in ungulates

Question 27

What is the knee?

Answer 27

carpus in ungulates

Question 28

What is a ungulate?

Answer 28

an animal with hooves

Question 29

What is the loin?

Answer 29

lumbar region of the back between the thorax and pelvis

Question 30

What is the mane?

Answer 30

region of long-coarse hair at the dorsal border of the neck and terminating at the poll

Question 31

What is the muzzle?

Answer 31

two nostrils (including the skin and fascia) and the muscles of the upper and lower lip

Question 32

What is the nippers?

Answer 32

hollow

Question 33

What is the paralumbar fossa

Answer 33

hollow area of the flank whose boundaries are the transverse processes of the lumbar vertebrae (dorsally) the last rib (cranially) and the thigh muscles (caudally)

Question 34

What is the pastern?

Answer 34

area of the limb between the fetlock and hoof

Question 35

What is the pastern joint?

Answer 35

proximal interphalangeal joint (joint between the long and short pastern bones

Question 36

What is the poll?

Answer 36

top of the head; occiput; nuchal crest

Question 37

What is the quarter?

Answer 37

lateral or medial side of the hoof

Question 38

What is the shoulder?

Answer 38

region around the large joint between the humerus and scapula

Question 39

What is the sole?

Answer 39

palmar or plantar surface of the hoof; irregular crescent-shaped bottom of hoof

Question 40

What is the stifle joint?

Answer 40

femorotibial and femoropatellar joint in quadrupeds

Question 41

What is the tail?

Answer 41

the caudal part of the vertebral column extending beyond the trunk

Question 42

What is the tail head?

Answer 42

base of the tail where it connects to the body

Question 43

What is the teat?

Answer 43

nipple of mammary gland

Question 44

What is the toe?

Answer 44

cranial side of the hoof

Question 45

What is the udder?

Answer 45

mammary gland

Question 46

What is the white line?

Answer 46

fusion between the wall and sole of the hoof

Question 47

What is the withers?

Answer 47

region over the dorsum where the neck joins the thorax and were the dorsal margins of the scapula lie just below the skin