58174 - Systematic Comparative Veterinary Anatomy II

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, students should be able to know morphological microscopic and macroscopic features of the digestive, genitourinary, and endocrine systems and the organization of the nervous system of the domestic mammals; the student should be able to recognize the main anatomical differences among species.

Course contents

Central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and peripheral nervous system. Receptors. Autonomic nervous system: sympathetic, parasympathetic, and enteric nervous system.

Eye and ear.

Digestive apparatus of domestic mammals: mouth, salivary glands, pharynx, guttural pouch, esophagus, stomach and forestomachs, small and large intestine, liver, pancreas.

Urinary apparatus: kidney and urinary flow pathway (renal pelvis, ureter, urinary bladder,

Urethra).

Female and male genital apparatus.

Endocrine apparatus: hypophysis (pituitary gland), hypothalamus-hypophysis axis, epiphysis (pineal gland), thyroid gland, parathyroid gland, adrenal glands (suprarenal glands), endocrine pancreas, endocrine systems of testicle and ovary.

 

Assessment methods

Three kinds of assessment are required:

Oral examination: students must describe some structures of the main systems studied;

Practical examination: students must recognize some organs belonging to the species studied;

Microscopic examination of histological sections.

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