OCTOBER 2005 • HORSES For LIFE™ Magazine
n avid dressage rider and trainer, Brie Hamblin was amazed to discover some very interesting information on the horse during her dissection class at a teaching veternarian hospital. She was in the process of examing the head of the horse with the skin removed, a stage where you can see all the muscles and nerves of the horse fully exposed. Creating a very different reality than just looking a pictures or drawings in school text.
She took up the challenge presented to her, to take pictures and share her discovery. So that more riders would understand the impact of their choices.
WARNING: There are some very explicit and graphic pictures of a dissected horse head included in this article. These pictures are presented as educational material. Please do not continue reading this article if you feel you might be offended or bothered by these pictures.
The infraorbital nerve is about 2-3cm wide and 1-3 mm thick. It innervates the upper lip, and some more fibers run back towards the eye.
his is the infraorbital framen.. framen basically meaning a hole. It is here that the infraoribital nerve passes from the inside of the skull to the outside of the skull. The blue arrow in the picture above marks the infraorbital framen.
Make no mistake this hole is bigger then it looks and is probably at least the width of about half of your little finger.
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