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Week 2: Supportive Material

1. Introduction

• The body cavities

• The directional terms and body planes
• The dog skeleton
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Here is the diagram we will label in the video in
both unlabelled and labelled form. You can print
them out and label them while watching the
video or just use them as a resource for revision.
Anatomy of the adult body – body regions and
cavities
Anatomy of the adult body – body regions and
cavities
Trunk

Pelvis

Neck Trunk
Thorax Abdomen

Head

Hindlimb
Forelimb
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The following are some helpful diagrams to
reinforce the terms and concepts covered in the
video to help you learn the directional terms used
in anatomy
CC’ PD Leonardo da Vinci
 Directional terms

caudal

Above carpus and cranial

tarsus use cranial
and caudal, below
use dorsal and
palmar or plantar
respectively

CC’ PD modified by DrGurå

 Directional terms and body planes

If perfectly in the middle:

median plane
CC’ BY-SA modified by DrGurå
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Here I have included some labelled images of the
dog skeleton and of the live dog so that you can
revise:
• The bones and joints of the skeleton
• Where to find them on the live animal
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Notes on the terminology used in the video:
We have chosen to follow the terminology used in Dyce, Sack &
Wensing “Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy” W.B. Saunders
Company, Philadelphia.
In this resource the term head means the skull and the mandible
together. In other anatomy resources the term skull is sometimes
used to describe the skull including the mandible. As Dyce, Sack &
Wensing is our primary anatomy text book we have chosen to
follow their practice, but we are aware that these terms are often
used differently, including in human anatomy text books like Gray’s
Anatomy.
 Skeleton – axial & appendicular
Axial skeleton:
• Head
• Vertebral column
• Sternum and ribs

Appendicular skeleton:
• Forelimbs
• Hindlimbs
Bones of axial skeleton
Sacrum Thoracic Cervical Skull
Coccygeal Lumbar
(S1-S3) vertebrae vertebrae
vertebrae vertebrae
(Co1-Co20) (L1-L7) (T1-T13) (C1-C7)

Mandible
Ribs &
sternum
Bones of appendicular skeleton – forelimb

Scapula

Shoulder
joint

Humerus
Radius
Elbow Carpal
joint joint

Ulna

Metacarpals Digits
Bones of appendicular skeleton – hindlimb
Hip
Hip joint

Stifle joint
Tarsal (patella/
joint Femur knee cap)

Fibula
Tibia

Metatarsals
Bones of appendicular skeleton – forelimb

Scapula

Shoulder
joint

Elbow
Humerus joint

Radius

Carpal Ulna
joint

Phalanges Metacarpals
Bones of appendicular skeleton – hindlimb
Hip
bones
Hip joint
Femur

Stifle joint
(knee)
Fibula

Tarsal
joint
Tibia

Metatarsals CC’ BY-SA Pleple2003

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1. Introduction
That’s all for part 1.

I hope you have enjoyed

learning some basic anatomy.
I leave you with a photo of my
old dog Blue 

When I was a pup I

had one toy.
It was a stick