Mosby Vet Tech Review

Toward the head The Thoracic Vertebrae are cranial to the sacral vertebrae

Toward the tail

Toward the backbone

Away from the backbone

Closest to the median plane

Farthest from the medial plane

Point closest to the backbone

Point furthest from the backbone

Toward the head

Toward the tail

Bottom of the front foot

Bottom of the back foot

Bones found on the midline or attached to it (excludes the limbs)
Examples inclue ribs, skull vertebral column and sternum

All bones that are present in the limbs
eg femur, humorous

Has very few spaces, appears solidmade of haversian systems (osteons; each system is composed of the following:
a central haversian canal : houses blood vessels and nervesb canaliculi very small canals that radiate out connecting all lacunae to eachother and to the central haversian canalc lamellae: concentric rings of boned: Lacunae: smal spaces that house osteocytes (mature bone cells)