Vet Med Terminology Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• withers: region over the dorsum where the neck joins the thorax and where the dorsal margins of the scapula lie just below the skin in equines.
• frog: v-shaped pad of soft horn between the bars on the sole of the equine hoof.
• brisket: mass of connective tissue muscle and fat covering the cranioventral part of the ruminant chest between the forelegs on cattle.
• wattle: appendages suspended from the head (usually under the chin).
• dock: solid part of the tail on a sheep.
• ham: musculature of the upper thigh in a pig.
• jowl: external throat—especially when fat or loose skin is present in swine.
• pinna: projecting part of the ear lying outside the head; the auricle.
• hock: tarsal joint; also called the tarsus.
• muzzle: two nostrils (including the skin and fascia) and the muscles of the upper and lower lip.
• stud: intact male dog. also a term used to refer to an attractive man.
• bitch: intact female dog. also a disrespectful term for a woman.
• queening: term used to describe the process of cats giving birth (not to be confused with slaying).
• litter: multiple offspring born during the same labor. also something you shouldn’t do with your trash.
• sprite: spayed female ferret. also a soda that hits especially different at mcdonald’s. or another word for an elf or fairy.
• sire: intact male rat. also a word used to address someone of a noble status.
• cock: intact male parrot. that’s all.
• gaggle: group of geese (they may or may not be silly).
• jack ass: intact male donkey (a word one might use in a fit of road rage).
• doe: a deer. a female (intact) deer.