| cow milk anaemia | Anaemia occurring in infants fed cow milk without iron supplementation, attributed to digestive tract allergic reaction leading to blood loss and hence iron deficiency. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| anemia | <haematology> Too few red blood cells in the bloodstream, resulting in insufficient oxygen to tissues and organs. Origin: Gr. Haima = blood (16 Dec 1997) |
| radioactive cow | Colloquialism for radionuclide generator. See: cow. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mad cow disease | A new disease of cattle, first reported in 1986 in Great Britain, characterised clinically by apprehensive behaviour, hyperesthesia, and ataxia and histopathologically by spongiform changes in the gray-matter neuropil of the brain stem; it is thought to be caused by an agent, possibly a prion, similar to that observed as the cause of scrapie. Synonym: mad cow disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cow | 1. A generator for short-lived isotopes based upon successively eluting or otherwise separating ("milking") a short-lived radioactive daughter from a longer-lived parent; e.g., 99mTc from 99Mo, 113mIn from 113Sn. 2. The mature female of domestic cattle (genus Bos); also the mature female of certain other animals such as buffalo, elephant, and whale. Downer cow, a recumbent cow that has failed to respond to treatment for its disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cow face | The cowlike face of ocular hypertelorism; typical of craniofacial dysostosis. Synonym: cow face. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cow kidney | A kidney containing an abnormally large number of minor calices, resembling normal bovine renal anatomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sea cow | <zoology> The mantee. The dugong. The walrus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| acidophilus milk | Milk inoculated with a culture of Bacillus acidophilus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alkaline milk drip | A variable mixture of sodium bicarbonate in whole milk dripped into the stomach through a small oral or nasal tube to produce constant achlorhydria; used in the treatment of certain ulcers. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ampulla of milk duct | A circumscribed spindle-shaped dilation of the lactiferous duct just before it enters the nipple. In nursing mothers this dilatation stores a droplet of milk which is expressed by compression as the infant begins to suckle; this is thought to encourage continual suckling while the let-down reflex ensues. Synonym: sinus lactiferi, ampulla lactifera, ampulla of milk duct, lactiferous ampulla. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bittner's milk factor | Member of the retrovirus subfamily Oncornavirinae, antigenically distinct from the murine leukaemia-sarcoma complex, that is associated with adenocarcinomatous tumours of the mammary gland, commonly latent in wild and laboratory mice and causing cancer only in genetically susceptible strains under certain hormonal influences. Synonym: Bittner agent, Bittner virus, Bittner's milk factor, mammary cancer virus of mice, milk factor, mouse mammary tumour virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| buddeised milk | A method of milk sterilization; to the fresh milk, hydrogen peroxide is added in the proportion of 15 ml of a 3% solution to 1 liter of milk, and the mixture is heated to 51컊r 52캜 (124캟) for 3 hours, by which time the peroxide is decomposed and the nascent oxygen acts as an efficient germicide; the milk is then rapidly cooled and put into sealed bottles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vitamin D milk | Cow's milk to which vitamin D has been added, to contain 400 USP units of vitamin D per quart. (05 Mar 2000) |
| goat's milk anaemia | Nutritional anaemia in infants maintained chiefly with goat's milk, which is relatively poor in iron content. (05 Mar 2000) |