| african swine fever | A usually fatal iridovirus infection of pigs, characterised by fever, cough, diarrhoea, haemorrhagic lymph nodes, and oedema of the gallbladder. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| african swine fever-like viruses | An unnamed, unclassified genus of DNA viruses with a single species: african swine fever virus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| african swine fever virus | The lone species of the genus african swine fever-like viruses. The virus causes a fatal disease among domestic pigs in africa and a less virulent infection in europe. The virus is present in soft ticks (ornithodoros moubata), warthogs, or domestic pigs. Originally listed as a species of iridoviridae, the virus exhibits some similarities to poxviridae but its differences warranted placement in a separate genus of an, as yet unknown, family. (12 Dec 1998) |
| swine fever | An acute, highly contagious disease affecting swine of all ages and caused by the hog cholera virus. It has a sudden onset with high morbidity and mortality. (12 Dec 1998) |
| swine fever virus | A species of the pestivirus genus causing exceedingly contagious and fatal haemorrhagic disease of swine. (12 Dec 1998) |
| philology, classical | The study of ancient greek and roman literature, including grammar, etymology, criticism, literary history, and language and linguistic history. (12 Dec 1998) |
| classical article | The current presentation of a previously printed seminal article marking a milestone in the history of medicine or science. It is usually accompanied by introductory remarks heralding its reprinting, often on the anniversary of its original publication or on an anniversary of the author's birth or death. It is usually reprinted in full, with complete bibliographical reference to the original appearance. (12 Dec 1998) |
| classical cesarean section | A cesarean section in which the uterus is entered through a vertical fundal incision. (05 Mar 2000) |
| classical conditioning | <psychology> Learning that takes place when a conditioned stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| classical confinement | <radiobiology> Plasma confinement in which particle and energy transport occurs via classical diffusion, best possible case for magnetically confined plasmas. See: classical diffusion. (09 Oct 1997) |
| classical diffusion | <radiobiology> In plasma physics, diffusion due solely to scattering (collisions) of charged particles (with unlike charges) via electrical (Coulomb) interactions. (See also diffusion.) (09 Oct 1997) |
| classical epidemiology | <epidemiology> Our term for the varieties of epidemiology primarily concerned with the statistical relationships between disease agents, both infectious and non-infectious; for example a study to establish the relative risk of lung cancer associated with smoking. We contrast this with ecological epidemiology. (05 Dec 1998) |
| classical genetics | That body of method and analysis that perceives genetics as the study of the transmission of genotype from parent to offspring; the study of multiple individuals is essential to it. (05 Mar 2000) |
| classical haemophilia | See: haemophilia A. (05 Mar 2000) |
| complement pathway, classical | The sequential activation of complement, initiated by antigen-antibody complex and the binding of complement factor c1q to the fc region of the antibody. (12 Dec 1998) |