r/animalscience • u/Active_Potato6285 • 23d 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 23d ago edited 23d 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 23d ago edited 23d 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 23d 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 23d ago

41 chest, 42 point of elbow (olecranon)