Give Me Your Blood
These 3 things make up whole blood.
What are red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets?
The choroid cells that make a reflective layer at the back of the eye to improve vision at night.
What is the tapetum?
The unit of measurement used specifically and only for insulin syringes.
What is IU (international units)?
This ectoparasite lives on the skin of dogs, cats, rabbits and is rare but highly infectious.
What are cheyletiella mites?
The result of broken blood vessels from excessive head shaking, scratching, or blunt trauma - especially in dogs. More likely seen after a cat vs cat fight.
What is an aural hematoma?
The term for the whole body of the bird.
What is the coelom?
The gestation length for both cats and dogs.
What is 61-65 days?
This anticoagulant tube should be fill first and is used for coagulation (PT/PTT) profiles.
Bonus: What anticoagulant is in this tube?
What is a blue top tube?
Bonus: What is sodium citrate.
The eversion or turning outward of the eyelid that can sometimes be the cause of dry eye or foreign body getting into the eye.
What is ectropion?
The bevel should always be in this position whenever handling a needle and syringe.
This ectoparasite has a round body and is zoonotic.
What is sarcoptes?
This infection has a specific odor, dry yellowish exudate, and chronic infections often result in hyperkeratosis.
What is malassezia?
This species begins life in water with gills then matures to develop lungs to live in either water or on land.
What is an amphibian?
This type of aggression is the #1 reason for veterinary staff bite wounds from patients.
What is fear-induced aggression?
This is the clotting factor that is removed to form serum.
What is fibrinogen?
This can be a side effect of corneal ulcers where the you will see rapid involuntary contractions of the eyelid.
What is blepharospasm?
When triple checking medication these are the 6 things we are looking for.
What is 1) patient, 2) Drug, 3) Dose, 4) Route, 5) Time, and 6) Documentation?
What is a deep skin scraping?
The stain used in ear cytology.
What is Diff Quik?
The correct response to accidently trimming a blood feather.
What is plucking the feather to cause coagulation?
The 4 things that should be completed EVERY time an animal comes to the vet clinic.
What are TPR & weight?
Daily Double #5: Normal limits for TPR of cats and dogs?
This tube must be allowed to clot before being centrifuged. Which tube is it and for how long does it need to form the clot?
Bonus: What type of diagnostic testing is completed with this tube?
What is a red top or tiger top tube?
Clots for 15-30 minutes.
Bonus: Chemistry Panel
Comparable to human pink eye, the mucous membrane that lines the eye becomes inflamed.
What is conjunctivitis?
Medications that are being given in any route other than orally are considered this.
What is parenteral?
This test can be completed on an awake patient, using a needle and syringe to suction cells from the mass.
What is an FNA?
(Fine Needle Aspirate)
These little critters can be seen in an ear that has dark brown discharge (looks like coffee grounds) and viewed on a slide with mineral oil.
Bonus: Scientific name?
What are ear mites?
Bonus: Otodectes cynotis
The term for shedding the outer layer of keratinous scales.
What is ecdysis?
A patient presents to the clinic on 12/3/26 for limping with an elevated temperature. The doctor's differential diagnosis (Ddx) can be found here.
What is the Assessment?
Daily Double #4: If the same patient had bloodwork completed on 11/3/25 and on 12/3/26 - where would we put the results in the medical record?
Underfilling an EDTA tube causes shrinkage of these cells.
What are erythrocytes (red blood cells)?
This is an age related change of the lens causing a blue/grey haziness indicating an increased density.
What is nuclear sclerosis?
Aggression between two animals over resources.
What is dominance aggression?
The first step in using a refrigerated sample of urine for testing should be to do this.
What is allowing the urine to site at room temperature for 30 minutes?
These appear as foot pints under the microscopic evaluation.
What is yeast?
The supplement that should be fed to insects before feeding these insects to our reptile pets. This helps prevent metabolic bone disease.
What is calcium?
The preying of one animal on another in the household causing undue stress.
What is predation?