Frontoscutular muscle

Musculus frontoscutularis

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

About the frontoscutular muscle of the horse

Frontoscutular muscle is a muscle of the head (head), one on each side of the body. Its name in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria is Musculus frontoscutularis. 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
Frontoscutular muscle
Latin (NAV)
Musculus frontoscutularis
Status
A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria

The frontoscutular muscle in other animals

The same structure in the other animals in the Library, to compare.

Questions about the frontoscutular muscle

What is the Latin name of the frontoscutular muscle?
In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the frontoscutular muscle is called Musculus frontoscutularis.
Where is the frontoscutular muscle of the horse?
Frontoscutular muscle is a muscle of the head (head), one on each side of the body.

See the frontoscutular muscle 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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