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Reservoir

Where a disease causing organism lives and multiplies. Therefore the reservoir may not be the source of the organism, that is only where it lives and multiplies.... ↪ Read more

Reproductive cycle

Events that happen in the female such as ovulation, hormone production, receptivity, etc. In camelids the cycle does not follow regular time periods as it does in horses or cattle.... ↪ Read more

Replacement females

New females that have recently been introduced to a herd.... ↪ Read more

Replacement

A calf kept and/or raised at the dairy as a future replacement for a cow in the herd. Replacement rate should average between 25%-33% of the herd/year.... ↪ Read more

Repeat Breeder

A female which has failed to get pregnant after a known mating with a viable male after an apparently normal oestrus. 7/20/2007)... ↪ Read more

Renal blood flow Abrev RBF

The blood presented to the kidneys. The kidneys receive about 20 to 25% of cardiac output each minute. Renal blood flow is determined by blood volume, blood pressure and cardiac output. The kidneys can also autoregulate their blood flow within certain ranges of blood pressure.... ↪ Read more

Relaxin

A hormone which is detectable when a fertilized egg is implanted, which usually occurs around day 21 following fertilization. Marketed as ReproCHEK by Synbiotics.... ↪ Read more

Rehydration solution

A solution administered to a dehydrated animal to return it's hydration state to normal. Most dehydrated dogs and cats have isotonic dehydration and are rehydrated with iostonic, iso-ionic solutions such as LRS or RS.... ↪ Read more

Regurgitation

Backward movement of food from the esophagus out the mouth.... ↪ Read more

Registered cow

Cow that has a pedigree and is registered at the Breed Association. There are 6 major dairy breeds within associations: Ayrshire, Brown Swiss, Guernsey, Holstein, Jersey, and Milking Shorthorn.... ↪ Read more

Redefined problem

A patient's problem is redefined if it is updated to a higher level... for example, vomiting may be updated to uremia as the results of diagnostic tests become available and show an elevated BUN.... ↪ Read more

Redefined

A problem is redefined if a more specific lable can be applied. For example vomiting is redefined or updated to acute pancreatitis as laboratory results become available that support the diagnosis of pancreatitis.... ↪ Read more