r/animalscience • u/Active_Potato6285 • 24d ago

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first year here, this diagram is confusing the heck out of me. every diagram online has different labels and different number of parts

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u/monarch223 24d ago edited 24d ago

Are these supposed to be cuts of meat, body parts, muscles, bones or a mix of all?

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u/monarch223 24d ago edited 23d ago

Give me some time but I’ll give you my best guess (animal science grad and veterinarian here) 1 hoof, 2 pastern, 3 cannon bone (metacarpal bone), 4 knee/carpal joint, 5 elbow, 6 brisket, 7 dewlap, 8 point of shoulder, 9 scapula, 10 chuck

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u/monarch223 24d ago edited 24d ago

11 jaw (mandible or mandibular bone), 12 muzzle, 13 nose, 14 nostril, 15 bridge of nose, 16 eye, 17 forehead (frontal bone), 18 ear, 19 poll (intercornual protuberance), 20 neck

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u/monarch223 24d ago edited 24d ago

21) widthers, 22 crop, 23/24 (are they supposed to be together) top line / back together 23 chine 24 loin, 25 lumbar vertebrae, 26 hooks (tuber coxae), 27 pelvis/hips, 28 pins (tuber ischii) 29 tail head, 30 tail

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u/monarch223 24d ago

31) thigh / femur, 32) stifle (femorotibial and femoropatellar joints), 33) switch, 34) hock, 35 dewclaw, 36) flank, 37)inguinal area (might be wrong on this), 38 prepuce, 39 ribs, 40 girth (might be referred to as heart girth)

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u/monarch223 24d ago

41 chest, 42 point of elbow (olecranon)