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Veterinary Medicine
Undergraduate 2
06/27/2013

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Alopecia
Definition
Definiency of the hair or wool coat
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Anorexia
Definition

Not eating

 

Loss of appetite 

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Ataxia
Definition

Failure of muscular coordination

 

Irregular muscular action

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Ausculate
Definition
To examine by listening to the thoracic or abdominal area
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Chief Complaint
Definition

The most apparent clinical sign in a patients illness

 

(Cardinal sign or key sign)

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Debiliated
Definition

Lack or loss of strength

 

Weakness

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Dehydration
Definition
When the body loses more water than it takes in
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Diarrhea
Definition

Increase water in stool

 

Rapid movement of fecal matter through the intestine 

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Dyspnea
Definition
Labored of difficult breathing
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Ectropion
Definition
Eversion or turning outward
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Emesis
Definition
The act of vomiting
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Entropion
Definition
Inversion or turning inward
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Erythema
Definition

Redness of the skin caused by congestion of the capillaries in the lower layers of skin 

 

Occurs with skin injury, infeection, or inflammation 

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Flatulence
Definition

Excessive formation of gases in the stomach or intestines

 

Released through the anus 

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Hematoma
Definition
A localized collection of blood in an organ, space, or tissue
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Jaundice

 

Definition
Yellowness of the skin, sclerae, mucous membrane, or excretions
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Obese
Definition
Excessive accumulation of fat in the body
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Palpate
Definition
The technique of examining parts of the body by toughing and feeling them
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Paresis
Definition
Weakness as a result ofof neurological or muscular disease with motor function still present
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Petechia
Definition
A small, nonraised, purplish red spot on serosal, mucosal, or cutaneous surfaces.
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Polydipsea
Definition
Excessive thirst manifested by exssive water intake
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Polyuria
Definition
The formation and excretion of a large volume of urine
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Purulent
Definition
Containing or forming pus
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Sclera
Definition
The tough, white, fibrous outer coat of the eye
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Stenotic
Definition
Marked by abnormal narrowing or constriction
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