Introduction to Anatomy

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Branch of knowledge concerned with the form, disposition, and structure of the tissues and organs of the body.

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Anatomy

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Branch of Anatomy that deals with structures large enough to be seen by unaided eye.

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Gross Anatomy

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Branch of Anatomy that deals with structures seen only under a microscope.

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Microscopic Anatomy
(Histology)

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Branch of Anatomy that deals with the study of structures of various species of animals with emphasis on those that aid in classification.

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Comparative Anatomy

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Branch of Anatomy that deals with the study of stages of life from conception to birth.

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DEVELOPMENTAL ANATOMY
(Embryology)

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Directed to groups of organs that are so closely related in their activities that they constitute body systems with an evident common function.

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Systemic Anatomy

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Directly concerned with the form and relationships of all the organs present in particular parts or regions of the body.

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Regional Anatomy

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A surface, real or imaginary, along which any two points can be connected by a straight line.

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Plane

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It divides the head, body, or limb longitudinally into equal right and left halves.

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Median plane

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It passes through the head, body, or limb parallel to the median plane.

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Sagittal plane

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It cuts across the head, body, or limb at the right angle to its long axis, or across the long axis of an organ or a part.

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Transverse plane

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It runs at right angles to the median and transverse planes and divides the body or head into dorsal and ventral portions.

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Dorsal plane

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Toward the back of the trunk or toward the corresponding surface of the head or tail.

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Dorsal

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Lie toward the belly

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Ventral

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Toward the head

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Cranial

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Toward the tail

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Caudal

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Within the head, structures toward the muzzle

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Rostral

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Toward the median plane

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Medial

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Toward the side

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Lateral

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Relatively close to a given part, usually the axis of the body

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Proximal

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Farther from the axis of the body

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Distal

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Ventral surface of the manus when describing the thoracic limb

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Palmar

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Ventral surface of the pes (foot) when describing the pelvic limb

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Plantar

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Proximity to the surface of the body

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Superficial

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Proximity to the center of an anatomical structure

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Deep

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Term used in reference to structures nearest to the long axis of a given part

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Axial

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Term used in reference to the structures away from the long axis of a given part

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Abaxial

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Do medical anatomists (human anatomy) make much use of the terms anterior, posterior, superior, and inferior, all of which have very different connotations when applied to quadruples?

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True

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A cut through the transverse plane.

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Transverse section

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A cut through the sagittal plane.

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Sagittal section

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50,000 names have been given to some 5,000 structures

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Ambiguity

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The international committee on Veterinary Gross Anatomical Nomenclature thru the World Association of Veterinary Anatomists prepared and published on internationally agreed on vocabulary

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Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria (NAV)

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NAV