Intro to Horses Skeletal System
Across
- 3. horse has 8 pairs of these that join at the sternum while 10 are called floating
- 4. bone located in the lower limb
- 5. bones that are located in the fetlock area
- 6. runs along the cannon bone
- 10. bone of the lower jaw
- 11. bones in a horse's knee
- 12. the vertebrae of the tail
- 16. the fused vertebrae within the pelvic region
- 17. vertebrae of the neck
- 19. bone located in the lower limb
- 22. the breast bone of the horse
- 24. bone in the forearm
- 25. gives rise to a horse's elbow
- 26. a very small bone that is fused with the tibia
Down
- 1. bone in a horse's hind leg
- 2. vertebrae of the chest region
- 7. also known as the shoulder blade
- 8. most distal bone in a horse's limb
- 9. also known as the knee cap in humans
- 13. vertebrae of the back
- 14. also known as the third metacarpal
- 15. bone of the upper jaw
- 18. bone of a horses forearm
- 20. consists of 34 bones
- 21. made up of the ilium, ischium, and pubis bones
- 23. longest bone of a horse's body