Sternebra 4

Sternebra IV

  • Bone
  • Front leg
  • Single, on the midline
  • Horse

One of the bony segments of the sternum.

About the sternebra 4 of the horse

Sternebra 4 is a bone of the front leg (thoracic limb), a single structure on the midline. Its name in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria is Sternebra IV. You can turn it above, see it in place in the front leg of the horse, and open it inside the whole animal in Vetomica.

Terminology

English
Sternebra 4
Latin (NAV)
Sternebra IV
Status
A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria

Questions about the sternebra 4

What is the Latin name of the sternebra 4?
In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the sternebra 4 is called Sternebra IV.
Where is the sternebra 4 of the horse?
Sternebra 4 is a bone of the front leg (thoracic limb), a single structure on the midline.

See the sternebra 4 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.

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