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27 Cards in this Set
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What is the only significant muscle of the manus in veterinary medicine and why?
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Interosseous m., because of importance in horse
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What is the direct continuation of the subclavian artery around the 1st rib to the thoracic limb?
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Axillary a.
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List the main blood vessels suppling the thoracic limb.
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Axillary, brachial, median, digital aa
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Where are most of the vessels and nerves of the arm? Why?
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medial side of the arm, protection
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List the main arteries to the forelimb and their location.
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Subclavian (to cranial side of the rib), axillary (in axilla), subscapular (along caudal scapula), brachial (in arm), common interoseous ( last branch of brachial), median (in forearm), digitals (in paw)
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Into what parts can the venous system of the forelimb be divided?
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Deep and superficial veins
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Where are the deep veins and how are they named?
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Parallel arteries and assume same name
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What are the locations of the cephalic and accessory cephalic veins of the manus; where do they join and continue as the cephalic vein?
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Cephalic palmar paw; accessory cephalic dorsal paw; meet at above carpus
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What main thoracic limb veins returns blood towards the heart?
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Cephalic and axillary vv.
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Where is the axillary lymph node located?
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In axilla, caudal to axillary v.
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What are the 2 parts of the central nervous system (CNS)?
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Brain and Spinal cord
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What are the parts of the peripheral nervous system?
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Cranial and spinal nerves & ganglia
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How is the nervous system organized segmentally?
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Spinal & cranial nn. & segments of CNS from which they arise
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What are the 2 impulses of the nervous system?
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Sensory (afferent) or motor (efferent)
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What are the 2 types of neurons of the somatic motor nervous system?
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UMN (upper motor neurons)& LMN (lower motor neurons)
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What are carried in the ascending and descending tracts of the spinal cord?
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Ascending: sensory; Desc: motor
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Functionally what does the somatic nervous system do?
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Conscious voluntary motor form & sensory to CNS to skeletal muscles
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Which functional division of the NS keep the body in balance with its external and internal environment respectively?
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External: somatic
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How does the autonomic nervous system (ANS) work?
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Carries involuntary motor to and sensory from CNS to smooth and cardiac m., & glands
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What are aggregations of nerve cell bodies in the CNS? PNS?
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CNS:nucleus; PNS:ganglion
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What is grey matter?
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Part of nervous tissue consisting of neuronal cell bodies
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What is white matter?
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Part of the nervous tissue consisting mainly of myelinated nerve fibers
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What is a nerve?
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A bundle of nerve processes outside the CNS.
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What are nerve tracts or fasciculi?
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Nerve fiber bundles of common origin in the brain & spinal cord
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Where do the spinal nerves leave the vertebral column?
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Intervertebral foramen
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What arises from the spinal cord to form a spinal nerve?
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Dorsal and ventral roots
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What type of nerve fibers pass through dorsal and ventral roots?
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Dorsal:sensory, Ventral:motor
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