Veterinary Medical Technology
Anatomy & Physiology
Blood
Blood
This excerpt from John W. Kimball’s online biology textbook covers the blood’s function, cells, and cell fragments.
Blood Typing Game
Give the three patients the right type of blood or you will endanger their lives. Look at “Blood Groups, Blood Typing and Blood Transfusions” here and the disclaimer here to better understand the different blood types. Then you are ready to play the quick game in which you pick up the needle, use it to draw blood out of the patient’s elbow area, state what type of blood the patient has, drop the needle over the three test tubes to see the blood typing results, and then drag blood bags to the pole to give the patient blood. There is also a mission-based game. The old version of the game is available here.
Bloodline Image Atlas
“This fully searchable directory features more than 800 hematological slides depicting various blood disorders and malignancies.” One can use a categorical index or keyword search to access the images.
Get Body Smart’s Blood and Blood Cell Quizzes
Includes visual quizzes for hematocrit, total RBC count, blood typing, WBC differential count, and clotting (coagulation) time.
Hemosurf – Demo
View normal and abnormal white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets.
Cats
Anatomically Correct: The Online Cat Dissection
View cat dissection videos and take quizzes on anatomy and physiology of the digestive, urogenital, and respiratory organs.
Cat Dissection Videos
View videos on skinning the cat, the muscular system, the circulatory system, the urogenital system, the nervous system, and the digestive and respiratory systems.
Muscular System
Quiz yourself on cat muscles.
Virtual Cat Dissection
This Pennsylvania State University website includes labeled images of the circulatory, digestive, muscular, nervous, respiratory, skeletal, and urogenital systems.
Cattle
Bovine Reproductive Tract Anatomy
This Auburn website includes includes labeled images of the bovine reproductive tract.
Ruminant Anatomy and Physiology – Digestive System
This University of Minnesota website includes detailed information on the cow’s digestive system.
Cells
Links for Anatomy and Physiology and MFM Animations, Movies, and Interactive Tutorials
Click here for links to animations, movies and interactive tutorials for general references, the cardiovascular system, blood circulation, blood, lymphatic and immune system, respiratory system, urinary system; fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base homeostasis; digestive system, metabolism, reproductive system, embryology and development, and genetics.
Animated Tutorials: Molecular Biology
Dr. Henderson recommends the following animations: life cycle of an mRNA, life cycle of a protein, mRNA splicing, and translation.
Cell Motility, Myosin, and Extravasation
The eight-minute-long video entitled “Inner Life” shows cell motility. Page also includes a link to a detailed animated tutorial on myosin that focuses on myosin 2 and myosin 5 and a link to an animated tutorial on rolling neutrophils, integrin activation, transendothelial migration, and extravasation in leukocytes (neutrophils, lymphocytes, and monocytes).
CELLS alive!
Interactive exercises allow you to examine cell structures, see the stages of mitosis, and learn about the immune system, the cell cycle, cell structure and function, and microbes.
Cellular transport animations
Following an overview, this website provides annotated animations on membranes, diffusion/osmosis, passive transport, and active transport.
Citric Acid Cycle
This Wiley site provides animations and review questions for sections for an introduction, cellular location, cyclic overview, catabolism, anabolism and catabolism, sources of acetyl-coa (fatty acidcs, amino acids, and monosaccharides), reactants and products, cyclical reaction pathway, fate of acetyl-coa carbon, regulation: inhibition, regulation: activation, energetics (anaerobic and aerobic), and anaplerotic reactions.
ETC animations
“This animation of the Electron Transport Chain (ETC) is designed to show the major events. For the sake of clarity the protein complexes in the membranes are shown as “blobs”….compounds turn blue when they are reduced and red when oxidized.”
Glycolysis animations
“For the sake of clarity this animation of glycolysis does not show the enzymes that catalyze each reaction, and only the carbon skeletons of the intermediates are shown. You should note the major stages in glycolysis, especially the changes in energy content.”
Virtual Cell Animation Collection
Includes animations for atp synthase, the electron transport chain, protein trafficking, protein modification, protein recycling, insulin signaling, constitutive secretion, regulated secretion, mitochondrial protein transport, photosynthesis (light), photosystem II, mitosis, transcription, regulated transcription, mRNA processing, mRNA splicing, translation, and lac operon. Created by the North Dakota State University Molecular and Cellular Biology Learning Center.
Dogs
Anatomic Atlas for the Canine Lumbosacral Spine
This website from the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine provides labeled images in three planes: transversed, sagittal, and dorsal.
Canine Brain Transections
This University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine website contains twenty transverse sections and an interactive atlas of the images.
Canine Planar Anatomy
This University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine website contains images of the head and neck, thorax, and abdomen and pelvis along the sagittal, transverse, and dorsal planes.
Carnivore Dissection
Each lab includes dissection images that can be viewed with and without labels. Following are the contents and links for each lab.
Lab 1: Superficial thorax and extrinsic muscles of the thoracic limb
Lab 2: Ventral neck muscles and extrinsic muscles of the thoracic limb
Lab 3: Intrinsic thoracic limb muscles: Scapular and brachium
Lab 4: Intrinsic thoracic limb muscles: Antebrachium and manus
Lab 5: Pelvic limb muscles: Rump and thigh
Lab 6: Pelvic limb muscles: Caudal hip, cranial thigh, and cranial crus
Lab 7: Pelvic limb muscles: Caudal crus and hip & stifle joints
Lab 8: Hypaxial muscles: Neck, thorax, and abdomen
Lab 9: Epaxial muscles & neck vessels and nerves
Lab 10: Thorax: Wall and cavity
Lab 11: Thoracic cavity: Lungs and major vessels
Lab 12: Thoracic cavity: Autonomic nerves and heart
Lab 13: Thoracic limb: Proximal vessels and nerves
Lab 14: Thoracic limb: Distal vessels and nerves
Lab 15: Abdominal wall & inguinal structures (vessels and nerves)
Lab 16: Abdominal & peritoneal cavities and abdominal viscera
Lab 17: Abdominal viscera & nerves, peritoneal structures
Lab 18: Abdominal vessels and pelvic diaphragm and nerves
Lab 19: Pelvic vessels and pelvic viscera
Lab 20: Pelvic limb vessels
Lab 21: Pelvic limb & pelvic nerves and arteries of the pes
Lab 22: Superficial structures of the head and the oral cavity & pharynx
Lab 23: Larynx, ear, and muscles of the jaw, tongue, & hyoid bones
Lab 24: Eye and related structures, superficial veins
Lab 25: Superficial nerves, head arteries, and cervical structures
Horses
Gross Anatomy Laboratory Review
Includes labeled images of the brain, cardiovascular system, digestive system, ear, eye, hoof, respiratory system, skeleton, thoracic limb, pelvic limb, trunk, and the urogenital system. Sometimes one has to click on an image to see additional images.
Muscular System
Get Body Smart Muscle Tissue Physiology
Tutorials cover the location and organization of muscle fibers, nerve supply to muscle fibers, and contraction of muscle fibers. Quizzes cover general characteristics of muscle fibers and internal organization of muscle fibers.
Muscle contraction animations:
Purdue North Central
San Diego State University College of Sciences
Wiley.com
Wisc-Online – Online Learning Object Repository – hit the next button to see the animations
Nervous System
Animations
Includes animations on the chemical synapse; membrane-bound receptors, g proteins, and Ca2+ channels; voltage gated channels and the action potential; sodium-potassium exchange; function of the neuromuscular junction; and action potential propagation in an unmyelinated axon.
Brain Gross Anatomy
This University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine website includes labeled images for brain divisions, cranial nerves, and ventricles and vessels.
Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections: List of Specimens
Includes brains of 175 species.
Synaptic Transmission
Includes an animation of a synaptic transmission at a neuromuscular junction. Also includes a three-question quiz.
Pigs
Virtual Fetal Pig Dissection
This Whitman College website provides images and quizzes on the circulatory, digestive, excretory, nervous, reproductive, and respiratory systems. Macromedia Schockwave is required to view the images and may be freely downloaded from the site.
Sheep
Dissection of the Sheep Brain
This University of Scranton website includes labeled dissection images with detailed instructions.
The Sheep Brain Atlas
This Michigan State University website has images of coronal sections and the external surface that can be viewed with and without labels.
Tissues
Animal Tissues
Includes images and information on epithelial, muscle, connective, nerve, and blood tissues.
Various Animals
Digestive Anatomy in Ruminants
Provides information and images for the digestive anatomy of cattle, goats, and sheep.
Interactive Drawings for Veterinary Anatomists
Provides interactive drawings for cats, cattle, dogs, goats, horses, pigs, and sheep. Click on the drawings to see the names of structures.
The eSkeletons Project
Choose Human under the heading, “Select A Taxon.” By choosing a bone from a pull-down menu and then clicking “Launch Bone Viewer,” one can see dorsal, ventral, medial, lateral, proximal, and distal views of the bone. One can also see its morphology, origins, attachments, and articulations.
Will’s Skull Page
Includes skulls of numerous species.
Auscultation
Colorado State University Veterinary Auscultation Library
“This website contains a collection of auscultation sounds from normal and diseased animals.” Includes bovine, equine, canine, and feline materials.
Breeds
Databases
Free Resources
ADA Technical Assistance CD-ROM
Receive a free CD-ROM of ADA guidelines from the U.S. government.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Science-related DVDs, videotapes, CD-ROMs, and publications are available to scientists, educators, and librarians.
Gait
Gait Foot-Fall Patterns
Includes animations of canine locomotion in normal and slow speeds and step-by-step. Shows animations of walking, ambling, trotting, pacing, cantering, transverse galloping, and rotatory galloping.
General Resources
American Veterinary Medical Association
Includes zoonosis updates, animal health brochures, and more.
American Veterinary Medical Association Collections
Includes full-text research articles on obesity in dogs and zoonosis.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture
Includes information on animal diseases, travelling with a pet, biotechnology, animal welfare, and more.
Center for Veterinary Medicine, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
“The Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) regulates the manufacture and distribution of food additives and drugs that will be given to animals.” Includes information on pet food recalls, animal drug products, biotechnology, and more.
Veterinary Support Personnel Network
Includes message boards, open forums, book reviews, abstracts, and links to helpful Web sites. Also includes a link to the Poisonous Plant Book from the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center.
LibGuides
Veterinary Medical Technology Resource Guide
A guide to helpful things for Vet Tech students, at the library and beyond.
Medical Terminology
MedlinePlus Medical Dictionary
This dictionary results from a partnership between the U.S. National Library of Medicine and Merriam-Webster.
mondofacto Online Medical Dictionary
Contains over 140,000 definitions with internal links for further clarification of definitions.
Web Anatomy: Self Tests for Medical Terminology
Includes three quizzes on prefixes, suffixes, and roots. Most terms cover the cardiovascular system.
Organizations
Academy of Internal Medicine Veterinary Technicians (AIMVT)
Find work and continuing education opportunities and read about AIMVT exam requirements.
Academy of Veterinary Dental Technicians (AVDT)
Find out how to become certified and view the case of the month.
National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America (NAVTA)
Read news and find work and continuing education opportunities.
Tennessee Veterinary Technicians Association (TNVTA)
Includes information on licensure requirements and continuing education opportunities.
Parasitology
Fecals – Interactive Tutorials
Provides interactive tutorials on dog and cat, cow and sheep, and horse fecals.
Parasitological Examination of Dog Faeces
Provides information on techniques, images of parasites, and a quiz on identifying images. Also provides a key to common eggs, cysts, and larvae in dog faeces.
Parasitology Life Cycles and Glossary
Provides diagrams of life cycles, some of which are animated. Click on the diagrams for more information about stages of the life cycle. Also provides a glossary of relevant terms.
Veterinary Clinical Parasitology Images
Provides images of specimens and diagnostic images. Also provides fluke and cestode keys, a guide to nematode adults, an egg and cyst chart, and information on nematode structures.
Pathophysiology
American Veterinary Medical Association
Includes zoonosis updates, animal health brochures, and more.
American Veterinary Medical Association Collections
Includes full-text research articles on obesity in dogs and zoonosis.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture
Includes information on animal diseases, travelling with a pet, biotechnology, animal welfare, and more.
Diseases and Disorders, Karolinska Institutet
Includes numerous links to webpages on diseases for amphibians, birds, cats, cattle, dogs, ferrets, fish, horses, sheep, and more.”
Physical Examination
Physical Exam
Video shows how to conduct a physical examination of a dog.