Anesthesia
Provide sedation, analgesia, muscle relaxation and anxiolysis. Ex: xylazine, romifidine, and dexmedetomidine.
What are alpha-2 agonist?
Thin, Level, horizontal bones that are formed from two layers of compact bone with a middle layer of cancellous bone. Ex: skull, ribs, pelvis
What are flat bones?
The is in place of the the upper incisors in ruminants.
What is a dental pad?
What is packed cell volume (PCV) also know as hematocrit (HCT)?
Normal variation in heartbeat as influenced by respiratory patterns.
What is a sinus arrhythmia?
Level of anesthetic vapor concentration in the lungs needed to prevent a motor response to surgical pain in 50% of all patients.
What is MAC?
Involuntarily controlled muscle and is found in the walls of the hollow organs.
What is smooth muscle?
Used to number teeth in veterinary medicine.
What is modified Triadan system?
Fragmented RBCs of varying shapes: horn-like keratocytes, triangle-shape trangulocytes, and helmet-shaped cells.
What are schistocytes?
The failure of kidneys to produce urine.
What is anuria?
Maintain the blood pressure and cardiac output in neonates during anesthesia.
What is heart rate and stroke volume?
What is cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)?
The term that refers to the condition of having more teeth than are normally found in the animal's species.
What is polydontia?
Erythrocytes that did not entirely expel their nuclear DNA, now visible as purple-blue basophilic inclusions upon staining.
What are Howell-jolly bodies?
What is an enlarged liver?
Labored breathing or shortness of breath
What is dyspnea?
What are the kidneys?
The most common oral tumor found in dogs. It is benign. There are two major types: fibromatous and ossifying.
What is epulis?
Granulocytes in an immature state.
What are banded cells?
Inflammatory, debridement, repair and maturation
What are the 4 phases associated with wound healing?
Breathing circuit that operates by circulating a combination of expired and fresh gases and work to push the expired gas through the soda lime.
What is a rebreathing circuit?
This part of the tooth is made up of connective tissue, nerves and blood vessel.
What is the pulp cavity?
The condition in which the mucous membranes lining the mouth become red and irritated.
What is stomatitis?
the first responders of WBCs. First to arrive at the site of inflammation.
What are neutrophils?
Clumping of erythrocytes due to autoantibodies.
What is autoagglutination?