| crazy chick disease | A disease of young chicks caused by vitamin E deficiency. Synonym: crazy chick disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| chick heart fibroblast | <cell culture> The cells that emigrate from an explant of embryonic chick heart maintained in culture. Often used as archetypal normal cell. (05 Jan 1998) |
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| Chick-Martin test | A method of testing the in vitro efficiency of a bactericidal agent; a standard culture of Salmonella typhi which has been added to a fixed amount of sterilised faeces or yeast is tested for a fixed period (30 minutes), against various concentrations of phenol solution and various concentrations of the disinfectant; the result is expressed as a ratio: the phenol coefficient, which is the highest dilution of the disinfectant under test at which the bacteria are killed, divided by the highest dilution of phenol which sterilises the solution in the same length of time. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chick nutritional dermatosis | Dermatosis in chicks, with eruptions about the eyes, mouth, and feet; responds to pantothenic acid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| squab-chick | <zoology> A young chicken before it is fully fledged. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |