Canine Muscle Groups

Contents:
         Purpose
         Organization
         Student Evaluations
         Platform requirements
         Download instructions

Purpose:
      Canine Muscle Groups 0.8 is independent study courseware designed to encourage students to think in terms of muscle groups instead of individual muscles, as they study veterinary anatomy. Grouping muscles streamlines the amount of information that has to be learned and facilitates recall. Muscles within a given region generally have similar actions and a common innervation.

      Canine Muscle Groups is a SuperCard stand-alone appication (Mac platform). The courseware was designed for first-year veterinary students studying Gross Anatomy and using "Miller's Guide to the Dissection of the Dog", from which most of the muscle grouping and many of the illustrations were derived.

Organization:
      Canine Muscle Groups 0.8 presents canine muscles organized into logical muscle groups within body regions. Navigation butons enable students to view muscle subgroups or to back-up and view supra groupings. a screens listing a particular muscle group has a button to evoke text descriptions of the muscle group and a button to display illustrations of the muscle group.

      Illustrations used in Canine Muscle Groups were obtained from: "Miller's Guide to the Dissection of the Dog" by Evans & deLahunta, 4th ed. 1996. W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia and from "Pictorial Anatomy of the Dog" by Ellenberger, Baum & Dittrich, 1956 Dover Publications, NY.

Student Evaluations:

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Platform Requirements:

      Canine Muscle Groups 0.8 is a SuperCard stand-alone application. Minimal requirements are a Macintosh computer with a 640 by 480 pixel color screen and 5 MB of RAM available to run the application. Disc size is 3 MB.

Download Instructions:

      A Macintosh computer is required to run Canine Muscle Groups 0.8. When you click "Download Now" (below), a 1.6 MB compressed, self-extracting, binary file "Canine Muscle Groups 0.8.sea" will be transmitted to the location on your hard disk where your browser downloads files. Double-click the downloaded file icon to extract a 3.0 MB file "Canine Muscle Groups 0.8" (your browser may extract this file automatically). Double-click "Canine Muscle Groups 0.8" to view the courseware. (You can trash "Canine Muscle Groups 0.8.sea" to conserve disk space.) Download Now