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21Polioencephalomalacia — (PEM) literally means softening of the cerebrocortical grey matter distributed in a laminar (layered) pattern. It is also called Laminar cortical necrosis or Cortical necrosis. PEM is a sporadic disease of unknown cause occurring in cattle, sheep …
22Lavender Foal Syndrome — (LFS), also called Coat Color Dilution Lethal is a genetic disease that affects newborn foals of Arabian horse bloodlines. Cases reported in peer reviewed veterinary literature are entirely of foals descended from a number of Egyptian or Egyptian …
23respiration, human — ▪ physiology Introduction the process by which oxygen is taken up and carbon dioxide discharged. The design of the respiratory system The human gas exchanging organ, the lung, is located in the thorax, where its delicate tissues are… …
24abeyance — abey·ance /ə bā əns/ n [Middle French abeance expectation (of a title or claimant), from abaer to expect, from a , prefix stressing result + baer to gape, aim at] 1: a lapse in the succession of property during which there is no person in whom… …
25Disease — Illness or sickness often characterized by typical patient problems (symptoms) and physical findings (signs). Disruption sequence: The events that occur when a fetus that is developing normally is subjected to a destructive agent such as the… …
26nocturia — Purposeful urination at night, after waking from sleep; typically caused by increased nocturnal secretion of urine resulting from failure of suppression of urine production during recumbency or incomplete emptying of the bladder because of… …
27platypnea — Difficulty in breathing when erect, relieved by recumbency. Cf.:orthopnea. [platy + G. pnoe, a breathing] * * * pla·typ·nea (plə tipґne ə) [platy + pnea] dyspnea induced by assumption of the upright position and relieved by assumption… …
28Nutritional muscular dystrophy — Typical stance of affected lambs, with arched back Nutritional muscular dystrophy (also called nutritional myopathy, White muscle disease) is a muscular disease of lambs and calves due to deficiency in selenium and / or Vitamin E. The condition… …
29Orthopnea — ICD 10 R06.0 ICD 9 786.02 Orthopnea or orthopnoea (Greek from ortho, straight + pnoia, breath) is shortness of breath (dyspnea) which occurs when lying flat …
30prostration — I noun abasement, bow, breakdown, cataclysm, collapse, consumption, debility, decay, decrepitude, defeat, dejection, demolition, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, destruction, distress, downfall, downthrow, enervation, exhaustion,… …
