Multiplication of organisms such as bacteria in the body usually leading to disease.... ↪ Read more

An animal such as the queen that requires vaginal stimulation in order to ovulate. Ovulation is triggered by breeding.... ↪ Read more

Ulcerative lesions found most frequently on the upper lips, but also seen in the skin elsewhere or in the oral cavity.... ↪ Read more

A mode of disease transmission where the environment is somehow part of the transmission cycle; i. e. contaminated water in a water trough spreads the disease.... ↪ Read more

There are multiple hosts and so the parasite is actually required to pass from one host to another host, and sometimes to another host, before it comes back to the original host in this lifecycle.... ↪ Read more

The front teeth.... ↪ Read more

A wound made by something sharp like glass fragments or a scalpel blade, that penetrates all layers of the skin.... ↪ Read more

The proportion of sampled animals that develop a condition of interest over a defined period of time. It is the measure of the occurrence of disease over time in a defined group of susceptible animals. Incidence can also be applied to measuring the occurrence of new cases of disease in an... ↪ Read more

Inactive problems are unresolved problems that are not being addressed diagnostically or therapeutically. Usually they are problems of a minor nature. Problems which are usually of a minor nature and are not being further diagnosed or treated.... ↪ Read more

Superficial pustular pyoderma seen in dogs less than 9 months of age.... ↪ Read more

Any failure of the immune response usually becomes apparent through increased susceptibility to infection and disease.... ↪ Read more

Administration of vaccines to confer protection against infectious agents.... ↪ Read more