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| The symphysis of the pelvic bone. Also known as the ischium. Visable on beef rounds and pork hams. |
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| The fat that covers the surfave of the loin eye muscle; often used as a linear measurement to estimate carass lean muscle yield; in pork, the measurement includes the skin. |
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| Cranial end of the carcass including the neck, and shoulder. |
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| Situated between the rib and the round, including the 13th rib to a cut made through the pelvic area anterior but no more than an inch from the hip bone. |
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| Situated between the the chuck and the loin, cut made between the 5th and 6th rib and continues to the 12th rib. |
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| Continuing posterior to the loin, including parts of the pelvic bone and all the femur (round) bone. |
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| Also reffered to as bloodshot. Rupture of capillaries in lean tissue. Caused by extreme stress at the time of death by a poor stun, a poor stick (exsanguination) or both. |
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| subjective estimate of animal fatness; normally used to group cows and heifers into body composition groups to determine reproductive efficiency and (or) nutritional needs. |
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| Subjective estimate of animal frame size |
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| Cartilaginous Juncture at the distal end of the metacarpal (just above the pastern) that is the area of growth long bones. Indication of physiological maturity in lambs. In younge lambs, cartliaginous and is easily broken. In older lambs, the epiphyseal plate has completely turned to bone and the joint can only be broken at the spool joint. |
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| Anatomical area of beef located ventral to the chuck, dorsal to the foreshank and anterior to the plate. |
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| Hemorrhaging of a blood vessel |
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