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Veterinary Medicine
Undergraduate 2
07/01/2013

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Term
Etiology
Definition
The branch of medicine that deals with the causes or origins of disease
Term
Five Categories of Etiology
Definition

Genetic

 

Congenital

 

Acquired

 

Idiopathic 

 

Iatrogenic 

Term
Genetic Etiology
Definition

In genes of an animal 

 

Inherited

 

Hip dysplasia

 

Deafness

 

 

Term
Congenital Etiology
Definition

Born with it

 

PDA

 

PSS

Term
Acquired Etiology
Definition

Wasn't born with it

 

Infection

 

Trama

 

Cancer

Term
Idiopathic Etiology
Definition

Unknown cause

 

Epilepsy

 

Vistibular disease

Term
Iatrogenic Etiology
Definition

Cause by a veterinarian, surgeon, medical treatment, or diagnostic procedure

 

Leaving surgical instrament in an animal 

Term
Symbiosis
Definition

The living together of two dissimilar organisms in close union

 

 

Term
Three Catigories or Symbiosis
Definition

Parasitism

 

Commensalism

 

Mutualism

Term
Parasitism
Definition

One benefits, one gets hurt

 

Has a host, either definitive or intermediate

 

Heartworm

 

Intestinal parasite 

Term
Definitive Host
Definition
Has adult stages or the parasite
Term
Intermediate Host
Definition
Has immature stages of the parasite
Term
Commensalism
Definition

One benefits, one doesnt get hurt

 

 

Term
Mutualism
Definition

Both benefit 

 

Fish and anemone

Term
Prions
Definition

A proteinaceous infectious particle that lacks nucleic acid 

 

PRP

 

Virino

 

Bovine spongiform

Term
Infectious Agents (Pathogens)
Definition

Prions

 

Viruses

 

Bacteria

 

Protozoan and metazoan parasites

 

Fungi

 

 

Term
Viruses
Definition

Any of a large subgroup of submicroscopic infective agents 

 

Protien codding that surrounds rna and dna 

 

Has no semipurmiable membrane 

 

Needs living tissue to reproduce 

 

 

Term
Types of Viruses
Definition

Epitheliotrophic - distemper - grows in skin

 

Neurotropic - rabbies - grows in organs 

Term
Bacteria
Definition

Unicellular organism with no membrane-enclosed nucleus

 

Prokaryotes

 

One double strand chromosome for dna

 

Cell wall outside membrane 

 

Chemoheterotrophic

Term
Gram Staining
Definition

Purple - positive

 

Red - negative 

Term
Protozoan Parasites
Definition

Unicellular organism with a well defined nucleus

 

Giardia

Term
Metazoan Parasites
Definition

Organisims having a body composed of cells differentiated into tissues and organs

 

Digestive cavity linned with cells

 

Roundworn

 

Tapeworm

Term
Fungi
Definition

Spore producing organism

 

Characterized by hyphae

 

Heterotrophic - need nitrogin and carbon to survive

 

Yeast

 

Mushrooms 

Term
Types of Trama
Definition

Mechanical - hit by car

 

Chemical - burn - antifreeze

 

Thermal - heat burn

 

Electrical - cords - shock

 

Irradiation - raddiation burn

 

Temperature induced - heat stroke

 

Sonic - sound damage 

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