Cranium

  • Bone
  • Head
  • Paired: left and right
  • Horse

The braincase: the bones round the brain and the organs of hearing and balance.

About the cranium of the horse

Cranium is a bone of the head (head), one on each side of the body. You can turn it above, see it in place in the head of the horse, and open it inside the whole animal in Vetomica.

Terminology

English
Cranium
Latin (NAV)
Cranium
Status
A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria

Questions about the cranium

Where is the cranium of the horse?
Cranium is a bone of the head (head), one on each side of the body.

See the cranium inside the whole horse.

Vetomica opens on this structure with every layer of the horse around it: peel back the skin and the muscles, cut a section through it, X-ray it, and practise naming it until you stop getting it wrong.

Free for 7 days, no card. After that the skeletons stay free.

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