RPSC Veterinary Officer (Rajasthan) · India · Rajasthan Public Service Commission
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersStructure of the domestic animal body, with the ox as the type species compared across horse, sheep, goat, pig, dog, fowl and laboratory animals. Applied anatomy (injection sites, nerve blocks, surgical approaches) links it directly to the clinic.
In the exams: ICAR AICE-JRF core group 07; ICAR AIEEA-PG 13 (Anatomy); PRC 10%; Nepal NLEV 6 items (with histology); BCSE 18-20 items; China basic paper 20 (with histology and embryology); AVE Paper 1 at least 2
How our questions for RPSC Veterinary Officer spread across the units of Veterinary Gross Anatomy. Difficulty: 31 easy, 22 medium, 1 hard.
| Comparative splanchnology | 9 | |
| Applied and topographic anatomy: injection sites, nerve blocks and surgical approaches | 6 | |
| Comparative osteology | 5 | |
| Arthrology | 5 | |
| Avian anatomy | 5 | |
| Myology | 4 | |
| Aesthesiology (sense organs) of the ox | 4 | |
| Angiology | 3 | |
| Boundaries of body cavities and pleural and peritoneal reflections | 3 | |
| Gross anatomy of laboratory animals | 3 | |
| Functional anatomy | 3 | |
| Biomechanics | 2 | |
| Neurology | 2 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
The pelvic symphysis is classified as which type of joint?
D. Cartilaginous joint (symphysis of fibrocartilage)
A symphysis unites bones by fibrocartilage and has no joint cavity; the pelvic and mandibular symphyses are examples. Sutures are fibrous joints of the skull; synovial joints have a cavity and capsule.
Further reading: Dyce, Sack and Wensing, Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy
How many patellar ligaments does the ox have?
D. Three
The ox and horse have lateral, intermediate and medial patellar ligaments. The dog and pig have a single patellar ligament, and one is the common wrong answer taken from small-animal teaching.
Further reading: Dyce, Sack and Wensing, Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy
Which domestic species has no tapetum lucidum?
C. Pig
The pig lacks a tapetum. Ruminants and the horse have a fibrous tapetum and carnivores a cellular one, which is why their eyes shine in light.
Further reading: Dyce, Sack and Wensing, Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy
Which type of lingual papilla is absent from the ox tongue?
D. Foliate papillae
Ruminants have filiform, conical, lenticular, fungiform and vallate papillae but no foliate papillae; the horse and dog have foliate papillae on the lateral margins near the palatoglossal arch.
Further reading: Dyce, Sack and Wensing, Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy
Which of these species has no gall bladder?
A. Horse
The horse (like the rat and pigeon) has no gall bladder; bile flows continuously into the duodenum. The ox, dog and pig have one.
Further reading: Dyce, Sack and Wensing, Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy
Which description fits the kidney of the ox?
A. Externally lobated, with calyces but no renal pelvis
The ox kidney has about twenty lobes separated by fissures and lacks a pelvis; calyces open into the ureter. The single renal crest is the sheep, goat and dog pattern, the smooth flattened kidney with pelvis is the pig, and the heart-shaped right kidney is the horse.
Further reading: Dyce, Sack and Wensing, Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy
Which artery provides the main blood supply to the udder of the cow?
D. External pudendal artery
The external pudendal artery leaves the abdomen through the inguinal canal and becomes the mammary artery. Venous blood returns by the external pudendal and the large subcutaneous abdominal veins, which is why the 'milk vein' is venous only.
Further reading: Dyce, Sack and Wensing, Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy
The pelvic peritoneal pouch lying between the rectum and the genital organs is called the:
A. Rectogenital pouch
From dorsal to ventral the pelvic pouches are rectogenital, vesicogenital (genital organs to bladder) and pubovesical (bladder to pelvic floor). The omental bursa lies behind the stomach.
Further reading: Dyce, Sack and Wensing, Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy
Which organ produces the voice in birds?
D. Syrinx
The syrinx lies at the bifurcation of the trachea into the primary bronchi. The avian larynx has no vocal folds; the crop is part of the oesophagus and the choana is the slit in the palate.
Further reading: King and McLelland, Birds: Their Structure and Function
Which vessels of the rabbit are commonly used for blood sampling and injection?
C. Marginal ear veins and central ear artery
The large ears carry an accessible central artery and marginal veins. The median caudal vein is used in cattle and, as lateral tail veins, in rats and mice.
Further reading: Dyce, Sack and Wensing, Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy
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