Equine Anatomy

Front 1

Barrel

Back 1

Capacity of the chest or trunk

Front 2

Bars

Back 2

Raised V-shaped structure on distal (bottom) surface of hoof

Front 3

Cannon bone

Back 3

Third metacarpal (metatarsal) of the horse; shin bone

Front 4

Cheek

Back 4

Fleshy portion of either side of the face

Front 5

Chest

Back 5

Thorax; between neck and abdomen

Front 6

Chestnuts

Back 6

Horny,irregular growths on medial surface. Front: just above the knee, Behind: near the hock

Front 7

Coffin Joint

Back 7

Distal interphalangal joint between short pastern bone and coffin bone

Front 8

Corners

Back 8

3rd incisor of equine

Front 9

Coronary band

Back 9

Coronet; Junction between the skin and the horn of the hoof.

Front 10

Crest

Back 10

Root of the mane

Front 11

Crest

Back 11

Root of the mane

Front 12

Croup

Back 12

Muscular area around and above the tail base

Front 13

Cutters

Back 13

Second incisors of equine

Front 14

Dock

Back 14

Solid part of the equine tail

Front 15

Elbow

Back 15

Forelimb joint formed by distal humerus, proximal radius, and proxima ulna.

Front 16

Ergot

Back 16

Small keratinized mass of horn in a small bunch of hai on the plantar or palmar aspects of fetlock

Front 17

Fetlock

Back 17

Are of limb between the pastern and cannon

Front 18

Fetlock

Back 18

Joint between long pastern bone (metatarsopgalangeal) and cannon (metacarpophalangeal) bone

Front 19

Flank

Back 19

Side of body between ribs and ilium

Front 20

Forelock

Back 20

In maned animsls, the most cranial part of the mane hanging between ears and forehead

Front 21

Frog

Back 21

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

Front 22

Gaskin

Back 22

Muscular portion of the hindlimb between the stifle and hock; crus

Front 23

Heart girth

Back 23

Circumference of the chest caudal to the shoulders and cranial to the back

Front 24

Heel

Back 24

Caudal region of the hoof that has an area of soft tisdue called the bulb

Front 25

Hock

Back 25

Tarsal joint

Front 26

Hoof wall

Back 26

Hard, horny outer layer of the covering of the digit in ungulates

Front 27

Hoof

Back 27

Hard covering of digits in ungulates

Front 28

Knee

Back 28

Carpus in ungulates

Front 29

Ungulate

Back 29

Animal with hooves

Front 30

Loin

Back 30

Lumbar region of back between thorax and pelvis

Front 31

Mane

Back 31

Long coarse hair on neck that terminates at the poll

Front 32

Muzzle

Back 32

2 nostrils and the muscles of the upper and lower lip.

Front 33

Nippers

Back 33

Central incisors of equine

Front 34

Paralumbar fossa

Back 34

Hollow area of the flank whose boundaries are the transverse processes of the lumbar (dorsal), the last rib (cranial), and the thigh muscle (caudal).

Front 35

Pastern

Back 35

Area of the limb between the fetlock and hoof

Front 36

Pastern joint

Back 36

Joint between long and short pastern joints

Front 37

Poll

Back 37

Top of head, occupit, nuchal crest

Front 38

Quarter

Back 38

Lateral or medial side of the hoof

Front 39

Shoulder

Back 39

Region around the large joint between the humerus and scalpula

Front 40

Sole

Back 40

Palmar or plantar surface of the hoof; irregular shaped bottom of hoof

Front 41

Stifle joint

Back 41

Femorotibial and femoropatellar joints in quadrupeds

Front 42

Tail

Back 42

Caudal part of the vetebral column extending beyond trunk.

Front 43

Tail head

Back 43

Base of the tail where it connects to the body

Front 44

Teat

Back 44

Nipple of mammary gland

Front 45

Toe

Back 45

Cranial side of hoof

Front 46

Udder

Back 46

Mammary gland

Front 47

White line

Back 47

Fusion between the wall and sole of the hoof

Front 48

Withers

Back 48

Region over the dorsum where neck joins the thorax and where the dorsal margins of scapula lie below the skin