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ENADE Veterinary Histology, Embryology & Developmental Anatomy: practice questions

ENADE: Medicina Veterinária · Brazil · INEP

Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papers
6worked here, free
32written to this exam in this subject
11syllabus units

What this subject covers

Tissues and organs at microscopic and ultrastructural level, and how the body develops from gametes to organs. Teratology explains many congenital defects met in practice.

In the exams: ICAR AICE-JRF core group 07; ICAR AIEEA-PG 13 (Anatomy)

Where the 32 questions fall

How our questions for ENADE spread across the units of Veterinary Histology, Embryology & Developmental Anatomy. Difficulty: 3 easy, 27 medium, 2 hard.

Systemic histology7
General embryology and developmental anatomy4
Histological and histochemical techniques3
Ultrastructure and electron microscopy3
General histology3
Gametogenesis3
Development of the urogenital organs2
Applied embryology and teratology2
Neuroanatomy2
Endocrine anatomy2
Histoenzymology and immunocytochemistry1

6 practice questions, worked

Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.

1 · General histology · medium

A horse with haemorrhagic anaemia is recovering, but no reticulocytes are seen in its blood smear. What is the best interpretation?

  1. The marrow must be aplastic, since a regenerating marrow always releases reticulocytes
  2. Horses do not release reticulocytes into the blood, even during regeneration
  3. The anaemia must be non-regenerative from iron deficiency
  4. The smear was stained with the wrong stain for red cells
Answer and working

B. Horses do not release reticulocytes into the blood, even during regeneration

Unlike dogs and cats, horses retain reticulocytes in the marrow until they mature, so their absence in blood does not rule out regeneration; marrow aspiration or serial red-cell indices are needed to judge the response. Concluding aplasia from the blood smear alone is the classic error.

Further reading: Eurell and Frappier, Dellmann's Textbook of Veterinary Histology

2 · Systemic histology · medium

In which species is the lymph node 'inverted', with afferent lymph entering at the hilus and follicles lying centrally?

  1. Ox
  2. Dog
  3. Horse
  4. Pig
Answer and working

D. Pig

The porcine lymph node is inverted: afferent vessels enter at the hilus, the follicle-rich tissue lies centrally and lymph leaves through the capsule. The ox, horse and dog have the typical mammalian arrangement with a peripheral cortex of follicles.

Further reading: Eurell and Frappier, Dellmann's Textbook of Veterinary Histology

3 · General embryology and developmental anatomy · medium

Which route of inoculation of embryonated chicken eggs is standard for isolating avian influenza and Newcastle disease viruses?

  1. Chorioallantoic membrane
  2. Amniotic cavity only
  3. Allantoic cavity
  4. Yolk sac
Answer and working

C. Allantoic cavity

Influenza and Newcastle disease viruses grow to high titre in the allantoic cavity, and the allantoic fluid is harvested and tested by haemagglutination. The chorioallantoic membrane is used for poxviruses, which produce pocks, and the yolk sac for chlamydiae and rickettsiae.

Further reading: McGeady et al., Veterinary Embryology; Noden and de Lahunta, The Embryology of Domestic Animals

4 · Applied embryology and teratology · medium

A heifer born co-twin to a bull is infertile, with a short vagina and no palpable cervix. The underlying mechanism is:

  1. Maternal progesterone deficiency
  2. Uterine infection during gestation
  3. A deletion on the heifer's X chromosome inherited from her dam, causing gonadal dysgenesis
  4. Placental vascular anastomosis exposes the female twin to male hormones and cells
Answer and working

D. Placental vascular anastomosis exposes the female twin to male hormones and cells

In the freemartin, the chorioallantoic circulations of the twins fuse early in gestation, so anti-Mullerian hormone and cells from the male reach the female; her gonads and Mullerian derivatives fail to develop and her vagina is short. Her blood shows XX/XY leucocyte chimerism, which is used for diagnosis.

Further reading: Zachary, Pathologic Basis of Veterinary Disease

5 · Neuroanatomy · medium

Along which route does cerebrospinal fluid flow from the lateral ventricles?

  1. Interventricular foramina, third ventricle, aqueduct, fourth ventricle, lateral apertures
  2. Central canal, fourth ventricle, third ventricle, subarachnoid space
  3. Fourth ventricle, third ventricle, lateral apertures, aqueduct
  4. Mesencephalic aqueduct, third ventricle, fourth ventricle, central canal, subarachnoid space
Answer and working

A. Interventricular foramina, third ventricle, aqueduct, fourth ventricle, lateral apertures

CSF made mainly by the choroid plexuses flows from the lateral ventricles through the interventricular foramina to the third ventricle, through the mesencephalic aqueduct to the fourth ventricle, and out through the lateral apertures into the subarachnoid space, where arachnoid villi absorb it. Obstruction at the narrow aqueduct causes hydrocephalus.

Further reading: de Lahunta, Veterinary Neuroanatomy and Clinical Neurology

6 · Neuroanatomy · medium

Which of the following is derived from neural crest?

  1. Neurons of the cerebral cortex
  2. Cells of the retina
  3. Cells of the adrenal cortex
  4. Chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla
Answer and working

D. Chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla

Neural crest cells form sensory and autonomic ganglia, Schwann cells, melanocytes and adrenal medullary chromaffin cells, among others. The adrenal cortex comes from coelomic mesoderm, and the cerebral cortex and retina from neuroectoderm of the neural tube.

Further reading: McGeady et al., Veterinary Embryology; Noden and de Lahunta, The Embryology of Domestic Animals

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