Dictionary Flashcards
(19 cards)
What is ingluvies?
The crop of a bird
used to temporarily store food
What is granuloma?
chronic nodular inflammation consisting of mononuclear or multinuclear inflammatory cells, granulocytes, macrophages, and fibroblasts.
classically seen in tuberculosis, but also in reaction to chronic bacterial, fungal and parasitic infection and to foreign material in tissues.
What is Comedones?
Blackheads in the skin, can be found in case of cushing syndrome
What is Phlebectasias?
abnormal outward dilatation of the vein without tortuosity, can be found in cushing syndrome
What is pannus in dogs?
pannus means superfascial keratitis (inflammation of cornea), usually affects large breed dogs
It starts at lateral limbus of the eye and spreads to all over the cornea causing neovascularisation, opaque cornea and pigmentation
What is aponeurosis?
flat tendon sheath found in flat abdominal muscles (rectus abdominis) that attach to the linea alba
What is syringomyelia?
fluid filled cavity in the spinal cord.
What is hydrocephalus?
excessive cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricles (cavities) of brain usually accompanied a distended big skull
What is hydranencephaly?
the brain’s cerebral hemispheres are absent and replaced by cerebrospinal fluid
can be found in the 3B’s and in akabane virus:
Bluetongue
Bovine viral diarrhea
Border disease
What is spina bifida?
Spina bifida is a type of neural tube defect.
spine and spinal cord does not develop properly in the womb, causing a gap in the spine.
What is arthrogryposis?
persistent flexion of a joint
What is Pleocytosis?
increasing in wbcs in body fluid esp. csf
What is Ehler’s Danlo’s syndrom?
Defect in collagen production in skin
What does buphthalmos mean?
Enlarged eye globe
Occur in CHRONIC glaucoma
What does opisthotonus mean?
muscle spasm causing backward movement of the head, neck and spine.
What is xnathochromia?
Yellow coloration of CSF, due to presence of bilirubin, which indicate nervous system haemorrhage, if CSF is black, it means melanoma
Normal CSF is clear
What is Lagophthalmos?
Inability to completely close the eyelids
What is a descemetocele?
the deepest layer of the cornea (descement membrane) is exposed due to corneal ulcer
(perforated ulcer)
What does Anhidrosis mean?
Little or no sweat
