OER by Discipline: Animal Science and Veterinary Tech

This book is an introduction to the diversity of structure and function in animals at the tissue and organ system level.

Veterinary Histology is a microscopic anatomy textbook focused on domestic species, including the dog, cat, cattle, horses, swine, and camelids.

In this introductory text, six fundamental nutrients, their structure, digestion, and metabolism are covered.

Goals of preventive medicine are to protect, promote, and maintain health and well-being and to prevent disease, disability, and death.

Veterinary nurses need to have a firm grasp of the normal structure of an animal’s body and how it functions before they can understand the effect diseases and injuries have and the best ways to treat them. This book describes the structure of the animal body and the way in which it works. Animals encountered in normal veterinary practice are used as examples where possible.

3D models created by the University of Edinburgh of various animal skeletons.

Check the bottom of the page for additional webinars.

Ethical questions about our treatment of animals arise in several different industries, such as agriculture, medicine, and cosmetics. This section addresses these questions because they form part of the larger picture of how society treats all living things – including nonhuman animals and the environment.

This site presents a menu of Ungulate YouTube videos from the University of Minnesota, Includes equine, bovine, and porcine skeletal, digestive and heart/lung specimens.

This Minnesota Veterinary Anatomy website is an umbrella site that provides access to individual courseware web sites/apps and other teaching resources. Additions & changes that have been made to the web site are listed chronologically in the log shown below. Subject matter includes carnivore (dog & cat) anatomy, ungulate anatomy, developmental anatomy (embryology), veterinary neuroanatomy, and medical imaging anatomy (MRI & CT). In addition to web site/app URLs, links to pertinent PDF files (gross anatomy terms; embryology class notes) are included. The PDF documents can be downloaded and viewed off-line.

This is not an OER link but it is free to the public.