Terms
What is a disease?
Is what the animal exhibits that is different from the normal function.
What are clinical signs?
The process of determining the nature and severity of a disease.
What is a diagnosis?
Include skin and mucous membranes, linings of the digestive and respiratory tracts, as well as coughing and sneezing.
What are surface barriers?
an abnormally high body temperature — or overheating.
What is an hyperthermia?
Predisposing factors are referred to as this; may be nutritional, genetic, environmental, and/or on the conformation of the animal.
What are stress Factors
A physical change in an animal that may indicate disease
What is a symptom?
a disease-carrying organism that does not develop the disease
What is vector?
The body's first line of defense against infectious agents, but does not provide specific, long-lasting protection against pathogens.
What is the innate immune system?
deficiency of red blood cells
What is anemia?
A physical object that serves to transmit an infectious agent from person to person.
What is fomite?
time from initial contact with the infectious agent to the appearance of first symptoms
What is incubation period?
capable of spreading from organism to organism
What is contagious?
A sudden rise in the incidence of a disease
What is outbreak?
A shot given under the skin, above the muscle.
What is a subcutaneous injection?
The study of the essential nature of diseases.
What is pathology?
Living organisms cause this type of disease.
What are infectious diseases?
A sudden onset of clinical signs and a short duration of illness
What are acute diseases?
Acquired by the animal on its own when antibodies are made by the animal's own immune system.
What is active immunity?
A shot that is given into the bloodstream.
What is an intravenous injection
a specialist in the study of outbreaks of disease within a population group
What is epidemiologist?
A disease that can spread from animal to human, or human to animal.
What is zoonotic
A set of measures taken to stop the spread of harmful organisms to human, animal or plant life.
What is biosecurity?
Physical behavior of an animal
What is body language?
The injection of a killed or weakened organism to produce immunity in the body against the injected organism.
What is a vaccination?