This is a much-needed textbook-atlas that depicts bovine anatomy. It is appropriately organized
so that it can easily be the single book that veterinarians refer to when an anatomic question
needs to be answered about this species.Provides the reader with detailed information on the
structure function and clinical application of all bovine body systems and their interaction
in the live animal. This expanded second edition now includes clinical anatomy and retains the
topographical and systems-based methods of anatomy used in the first edition. The topographic
anatomy is accompanied by systematic illustrations of the bones joints muscles organs blood
vessels nerves and lymph nodes for each body system. There are also tables containing
detailed information on the muscles lymph nodes and peripheral nerves. The authors pay
particular attention to the histology growth and function of the bovine hoof. In addition to
the gross anatomy of the udder its development histology and function are described and
illustrated. One chapter is devoted to the pathology pathogenesis and molecular biology of
bovine spongiform encephalopathy scrapie of sheep and goats and chronic wasting disease.
Each page of text is followed by a full page of colour illustrations. The second edition also
contains more than 70 new diagrams and clinical photographs. The book has long been
acknowledged as a valuable reference for study and revision and this new edition is an
essential resource for practitioners and students alike.
