Prepare for success on your Veterinary Assisting exam with a comprehensive review! Elsevier's Veterinary Assisting Exam Review is the only review book for Veterinary Assistants. An illustrated, outline format makes it easier to review veterinary assisting topics such as laboratory, examination room, office, and hospital procedures; surgical preparation; pharmacology; imaging; and client relations. Written by experienced veterinary technician educator Margi Sirois, this review also includes an Evolve website with nearly 1, 000 exam questions and customizable practice tests.- UNIQUE! The only review book on the market for Veterinary Assistants!- Convenient, easy-to-follow outline format provides comprehensive coverage of key veterinary assisting concepts and topics.- High-quality illustrations and clinical photos show equipment, animal care, and procedures.- Coverage of animal nursing includes small, large, and exotic animals, as well as avian care.- Nearly 1, 000 questions are provided on the Evolve website, and allow you to select and answer questions in specific categories in Practice mode or to generate credentialing exam-style tests in Exam mode.- Combination of questions, answers, and detailed rationales ensures that you fully comprehend the type of information being asked and why a specific answer choice is best.
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Topic
MedicineChapter 1: Foundations of veterinary assisting
Learning objectives
- 1. Describe types of cells and tissues of the body.
- 2. List the names of organs and structures that make up the various body systems.
- 3. Describe the general and special senses of the body and their functions.
- 4. Construct medical terms from word parts.
- 5. Define the meanings of common prefixes and suffixes used in medical terms.
- 6. Define terms used for common surgical procedures, diseases, instruments, procedures, and dentistry.
- 7. Describe anatomic terms for direction.
- 8. Define common abbreviations.
Key terms
Appendicular skeleton
Autonomic nervous system
Axial skeleton
Buccal
Cardiac cycle
Caudal
Central nervous system
Compound word
Cranial
Dental formula
Distal
Dorsal
Endocrine glands
General senses
Gestation
Integument
Lateral
Lymphatic system
Medial
Mesial
Occlusal
Palmar
Parturition
Peripheral
Plantar
Proximal
Recumbent
Reproductive system
Root word
Rostral
Skeletal muscle
Smooth muscle
Special senses
Tissues
Urinary system
Ventral
Anatomy and physiology
Cells
- • Basic structural and functional units of life
- • All living things are composed of cells.
- • Many different types of cells may be present, each with its own place and function
Tissues and organs
- • Groups of specialized cells
- • Types of tissues
- • Epithelial tissue
- • Covers the interior and exterior surfaces of the body, lines body cavities, and forms glands; does not contain blood vessels
- • Connective tissue: holds the different tissues together and provides support
- • Adipose connective tissue: lipid-storing cells
- • Loose connective tissue: fiber-producing cells, fibroblasts, collagen fibers, reticular fibers, and elastic fibers
- • Dense connective tissue: same components as loose connective tissue but more densely packed
- • Elastic connective tissue: tendons, ligaments
- • Blood-specialized connective tissue: cells suspended in plasma
- • Cartilage: chondrocytes and various types and amounts of fibers embedded in a thick, gelatinous, intercellular substance; hyaline cartilage, fibrous cartilage, elastic cartilage
- • Bone: osteocytes embedded in a matrix that has become mineralized through the process of ossification
- • Types: long bones, flat bones, irregular bones, sesamoid bone...
- • Epithelial tissue
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Dedication
- List of Tables
- List of Illustrations
- 1. Foundations of veterinary assisting
- 2. Office and hospital procedures
- 3. Communication and client relations
- 4. Pharmacology and pharmacy
- 5. Examination room procedures
- 6. Small animal nursing
- 7. Surgical preparation and assisting
- 8. Laboratory procedures
- 9. Diagnostic imaging
- 10. Large animal nursing and husbandry
- 11. Avian and exotic animal care and nursing
- Appendix A: Practice exam
- Index
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