Guide to Ruminant Anatomy: Dissection and Clinical Aspects

Guide to Ruminant Anatomy: Dissection and Clinical Aspectspresents a concise, clinically relevant reference to goat and cattle anatomy, with color schematic illustrations and embalmed arterially injected prosection images for comparison.  Logically organized by body systems, the chapters cover the head and neck, thorax, abdomen, pelvis, forelimb, and hindlimb.  Linking anatomical information to clinical practice, the book provides a succinct understanding of normal anatomy in goats and cows.

Each chapter offers review questions to aid in knowledge retention, with answers and videos of selected areas supplied on a companion website.  Guide to Ruminant Anatomy is a useful resource to anatomical knowledge for practitioners, students, and instructors seeking essential information on ruminant anatomy.

Key features 

Offers 244 color images depicting goat and cattle anatomy Provides selected line drawings correlated to dissection images of embalmed arterially injected specimens Takes a practical approach, with material organized by body system within each region Demonstrates the clinical relevance of basic anatomy Poses review questions in each chapter, with answers and videos provided on a companion website

Mahmoud Mansour, DVM, PhD is Professor of Veterinary Anatomy at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, USA.

D. Ray Wilhite, MS, PhD is Anatomy Laboratory Coordinator at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, USA.

Joe Rowe, DVM is Gross Anatomy Lecturer at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, USA.