Dissection of the Dog Handbook: A Clinical Textbook Covering Regional Anatomy, Surface Landmarks, and Laboratory Technique for Veterinary Students

Houle MD, Anthony S.

ISBN 13: 9798190737806

Editore: Independently published, 2026

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• Titolo: Dissection of the Dog Handbook: A Clinical Textbook Covering Regional Anatomy, Surface Landmarks, and Laboratory Technique for Veterinary Students
• Editore: Independently published
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 13: 9798190737806
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Built for the veterinary student standing over the cadaver for the first time, this handbook moves through canine gross anatomy in true dissection order, superficial to deep, proximal to distal, region by region, so the terminology and osteology needed to identify a structure arrive exactly when the scalpel does. Every region carries the Landmark Anchor System, a five-part callout pairing each structure with a palpable reference point, its spatial relation to its neighbors, a confirming cue, and one locking detail.

Each chapter closes with a synthesis recap, and every anchor is indexed a second time in the closing Landmark Anchor Atlas for pre-lab or pre-rotation review.

Inside, You Will Learn How To

• Anchor the thoracic limb nerves before you cut — trace the radial nerve across the humeral shaft and read the atrophy pattern it produces.

• Localize a sciatic-territory pelvic injury — use the hip's stabilizers and the sciatic nerve's course between two fixed landmarks to separate a hip problem from a stifle problem.

• Map heart sounds to heart structure — four valve auscultation points derived directly from the chamber anatomy this book dissects.

• Navigate the abdomen from the linea alba to the duodenal papilla — the incision line and the point where liver, gallbladder, and pancreas converge.

• Separate facial sensation from facial movement — the trigeminal and facial nerves' distinct territories, and what a dissociated deficit tells you.

• Localize a plexus injury by reflex and dermatome — the brachial and lumbosacral plexuses in one root-to-nerve reference.

• Look up any of sixty-four anchored landmarks in seconds — the closing Atlas, cross-referenced by chapter and region.

Open it before your next lab session — the structures your practical exam and your future patients both depend on, in one dissection-order reference.