| infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis | A disease of cattle caused by the bacterium Moraxella bovis and characterised by blepharospasm, conjunctivitis, lacrimation, and corneal opacity and ulceration. Synonym: infectious ophthalmia, pinkeye. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| keratoconjunctivitis, infectious | Infectious diseases of cattle, sheep, and goats, characterised by blepharospasm, lacrimation, conjunctivitis, and varying degrees of corneal opacity and ulceration. In cattle the causative agent is moraxella (moraxella) bovis; in sheep, mycoplasma, rickettsia, chlamydia, or acholeplasma; in goats, rickettsia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pulmonary adenomatosis, ovine | A pulmonary disease of sheep characterised by hyperplasia and hypertrophy of septal cells of the lung. (12 Dec 1998) |
| ovine | Relating to, affecting, resembling or derived from a sheep. (09 Oct 1997) |
| ovine acetonaemia | A disease of preparturient ewes characterised primarily by impaired nervous function; the primary predisposing cause is undernutrition in late pregnancy. Synonym: ovine acetonaemia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ovine mastitis | An acute inflammation of the sheep udder, usually gangrenous. Synonym: bluebag. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ovine progressive pneumonia | A chronic, progressive, contagious interstitial pneumonitis of sheep in Europe and the U.S. Caused by a "slow virus" (family Lentiviridae); it is now believed that maedi and visna are two histopathological and clinical manifestations of the same viral infection. Synonym: ovine progressive pneumonia. Origin: Icelandic, dyspnea (05 Mar 2000) |
| lentiviruses, ovine-caprine | A subgenus of lentivirus comprising viruses that produce multi-organ disease with long incubation periods in sheep and goats. (12 Dec 1998) |
| atopic keratoconjunctivitis | A chronic papillary inflammation, of the conjunctiva showing Trantas dots in a patient with a history of hypersensitivity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vernal keratoconjunctivitis | A chronic, bilateral conjunctival inflammation with photophobia and intense itching that recurs seasonally during warm weather; characterised in the palpebral form by cobblestone papillae in the upper palpebral conjunctiva and in the bulbar form by gelatinous nodules adjacent to the corneoscleral limbus. Synonym: allergic conjunctivitis, spring conjunctivitis, spring ophthalmia, vernal catarrh, vernal keratoconjunctivitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| virus keratoconjunctivitis | Follicular conjunctivitis followed by subepithelial corneal infiltrates; often caused by adenovirus type 8, less commonly by other types. Synonym: virus keratoconjunctivitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| microsporidian keratoconjunctivitis | A form of keratoconjunctivitis often associated with immunosuppressed persons, such as those suffering from AIDS. (05 Mar 2000) |
| herpetic keratoconjunctivitis | <pathology> Inflammation of the cornea (and conjunctiva) due to herpes virus type I, a characteristic finding on physical examination of the eye (cornea) is a dendritic pattern (crystalline or tree-like pattern). (27 Sep 1997) |
| superior limbic keratoconjunctivitis | Inflammatory oedema of the superior corneoscleral limbus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| epidemic keratoconjunctivitis | Follicular conjunctivitis followed by subepithelial corneal infiltrates; often caused by adenovirus type 8, less commonly by other types. Synonym: virus keratoconjunctivitis. (05 Mar 2000) |