Comparative Veterinary Anatomy

A Clinical Approach

James A. Orsini, Nora S. Grenager, Alexander de Lahunta

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9780323910156
• eBook ISBN:
  9780128121085
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Anatomy
• Index: Biological Sciences

Comparative Veterinary Anatomy: A Clinical Approach describes the comprehensive, clinical application of anatomy for veterinarians, veterinary students, allied health professionals and undergraduate students majoring in biology and zoology. The book covers the applied anatomy of dogs, cats, horses, cows and other farm animals, with a short section on avian/exotics, with a focus on specific clinical anatomical topics. The work improves the understanding of basic veterinary anatomy by making it relevant in the context of common clinical problems. This book will serve as a single-source reference on the application of important anatomical structures in a clinical setting. Students, practitioners and specialists will find this information easy-to-use and well-illustrated, thus presenting an accurate representation of essential anatomical structures that relates to real-life clinical situations in veterinary medicine. - Presents multiple species, garnering a broad audience of interest for veterinarians, specialists, professional students, and undergraduate students majoring in the biological sciences - Contains detailed layered color figures at the beginning of each different species section in addition to numerous figures throughout - Focuses on clinically oriented anatomy - Correlates gross anatomy, radiology, ultrasound, CT, MRI and nuclear medicine in clinical case presentations

Table of contents

• Comparative Veterinary Anatomy: A Clinical Approach
• Section I: Introduction
• Section II: Diagnostic Imaging
• Section III: Canine and Feline Clinical Cases
• Section IV: Equine Clinical cases
• Section V: Farm Animal Clinical Cases
• Section VI: Avian Clinical Cases
• Appendix 1 Standard abbreviations
• Appendix 2 Normal Respiratory Rate, Heart Rate, and Temperature Reference Ranges
• Appendix 3 Hematology reference intervals
• Appendix 4 Biochemistry Reference Intervals
• Anatomy textbooks referenced for clinical cases and figures
• Copyright
• Index