There is an awful lot of medical jargon just to describe where something is and what it looks like. Some of these words are great, caseous being one of my favourites. It means to have a texture like cheese. Friable means it breaks apart, often in chunks. Dorsal is up, ventral is down, rostral is towards the nose, cranial is towards the head and caudal towards the tail. Mostly I expect clients to use up, down, front and back, left and right. So I was slightly wrongfooted when I asked someone
"Which leg is he lame on?" and they said
"Passenger side"
Mind you, on a road trip with my flatmate from vet school I had a light go out on my car. I asked her which one. "Left hind"
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