Ch. 6-Admissions & Medical Records

A horse holding a foreleg in front of the vertical position is showing signs of

________ are not capable of open-mouth breathing.

During lung auscultation, a portion of the _________ lung field is obscured by shoulder musculature and cannot be heard.

Feces from ________ lack distinct form.

If the owner of a horse with ophthalmic problems calls for advice, they should be told

When taking the temperature on a horse, the string tied to the ring-top on a mercury thermometer

When taking a history, it is important to

When determining the heart rate in a horse by auscultation, a common error is

When evaluating lameness, ____________ is usually the most informative gait.

When assessing hydration status in a severely dehydrated animal

Auscultation of the heart is performed for determining

For heart auscultation, the dorsal landmark of the heart in horses & cattle is the __, and the ventral landmark is the _

Small pinpoint hemorrhages, less than 1 mm in diameter, seen on the mucous membranes are

With regard to withdrawal intervals, they

When assessing the gait of a horse, which test provides evidence of proprioceptive defects?

When examining a horse with colic, a rectal examination

When inserting a rectal thermometer in a horse,

The most common reason for lameness in the horse is

When diagraming leg markings on a horse, a __________ is a white marking that crosses the knee or hock at some point.

Freeze branding

When treating colic in a horse, nasogastric intubation

The ______________ is not a mucous membrane.

When measuring height in horses, one hand equals __________, and a pony is less than_________ high.

A prepurchase examination of a horse

When unloading a horse from _____________, the safest way is to back it out.

A hair whorl _________________ of a horse would not be useful for the purposes of identification.

A bloated rumen

______________ in the horse has the unique characteristic of producing a purple gum line along the margins of the teeth.

During a cranial nerves evaluation, if a gesture is made toward the eye of a horse & the eyelid closes this is a normal

Panel tags used for animal identification

_________________ can be the single most important piece of information obtained during a colic examination on a horse.

When assessing pupil symmetry, constriction of the pupil is called _____, and dilation of the pupil is called _____.

When diagraming face markings, a _ is a small marking between the eyes between the poll & the bottom 1/3 of the forehead

When performing abdominal auscultation on a horse, borborygmi

The coat of a _________ has yellow tan as its body color and leg color, with a white or blonde mane and tail.

In the horse, a second-degree atrioventricular heart block detected by palpation of an artery

When loading a horse onto a trailer