Clinical Dissection Guide for Large Animals

Book excerpt: Clinical Dissection Guide for Large Animals, Second Edition, provides a self-directed and detailed guide for the dissection of the horse and large ruminants. Organized into two parts, one for each of the animal groups included, the material is presented as a progressive series of anatomical illustrations accompanied by key descriptive text. This guide also provides regional and topographical dissection techniques starting with surface features and progressing to deeper structures, stopping along the way for appropriate comments on principal anatomical entities for each region. The second edition introduces all the bones and joints and the most important clinical correlations with the anatomical structures exposed during the dissection. With more than 650 illustrations on more than 320 plates, the Clinical Dissection Guide for Large Animals, Second Edition, belongs on the shelf of every student, animal scientist, and veterinarian who works with horses or large ruminants.