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a local area of damage caused by disease, injury, or surgery
what is a lesion?
a type of Old World monkey
what is a macaque?
describes an animal that is active during the night and sleeps most of the day
what is nocturnal?
an animal that eats both plants and other animals
what is an omnivore?
a perception in the brain of potential or actual tissue damage resulting from transmitted signals from nerve endings
what is pain?
a unit of liquid measure in the metric system
What is a liter?
a descriptive anatomical term meaning toward the midline
what is medial?
a new born animal
what is a neonate?
the female germ line cell
what is an oocyte?
a drug that kills parasites
a descriptive anatomical term meaning away from the midline of the body
what is lateral?
a unit of distance or linear measure in the metric system
what is a meter?
a very soft fecal pellet that rabbits excrete and eat in order to recycle the protein, B vitamins, and water
what is night feces?
a miniature cylindrical pump that is implanted into a body cavity to provide continuous delivery of a desired substance over a period of time
what is an osmotic pump?
per day, such as the cost of maintaining one animal for one day
what is per diem?
process of washing out or irrigating
what is lavage?
what is an MRI?
death of cells or tissues caused by injury or disease
what is necrosis?
the hard bony plate that cover a fish's gills
what is the operculum?
the detectable characteristics of an organism - in other words what you can see - height, weight, color, etc
what is the phenotype?
A type of white blood cell that can be formed in the spleen or thymus, includes natural killer cells, B-cells, and T-cells
what is a lymphocyte?
process of cellular replication following chromosome replication and cellular division
what is mitosis?
one of the two openings to the nose
what are nares or naris?
the passage of solvent molecules across the cell membrane, a passive process
what is osmosis?
the second set of upper incisors directly behind the front teeth of rabbits
what are the peg teeth?