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An animal divided by lines.
Also known as: Meat cuts chart, Carcass diagram
The diagram dividing a carcass into named commercial cuts.
Divides a carcass into named commercial cuts on a diagram of the animal.
Contexts: Public information
The divisions differ substantially between countries, so the same anatomical region yields differently named and differently shaped cuts in Britain, France and the United States — the diagram is a map of a market, not of an animal.
Cut divisions and names are national conventions and do not correspond between countries.
Contexts: Public information
A side view outline of the animal divided by lines into labelled regions, each named for the cut taken from it.