The Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria (often abbreviated as NAV) is a standardized nomenclature.
It is made by World Association of Veterinary Anatomists (WAVA).
It is used as the standard reference for anatomical (zootomical) terminology in the field of veterinary science regarding domestic mammals (domestic birds are regarded in the Nomina Anatomica Avium).
It is based on cats, dogs, pigs, cows, sheep, goats, rabbits and horses—horses being their main subjects.
Following professor Clement Bressou in 1959 in Freiburg (Germany), they formed the International Committee on Veterinary Anatomical Nomenclature, renamed World Association of Veterinary Anatomists in 1962, and published the first edition of the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria (NAV) in 1968.