| feline leukaemia | A leukaemic disorder of cats caused by feline leukaemia virus, a member of the family Retroviridae, and characterised by depression and mild fever, and by the presence of tumours in the mediastinal and mesenteric lymph nodes, followed by multiple tumour formation throughout the body; during the terminal stages of the disease lymphoblasts may appear in the peripheral blood. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| feline leukaemia virus | A retrovirus of the Oncornovirinae subfamily causing many proliferative (neoplastic) and degenerative (blastopenic) diseases in domestic cats, including lymphosarcoma, thymic atrophy, immune complex glomerulonephritis, foetal abortions and resorptions, and several myeloproliferative and myelodegenerative conditions; it also causes immunosuppression in infected cats. (05 Mar 2000) |
| feline leukaemia-sarcoma virus complex | Viruses from cats that induce transmissible leukaemia or transmissible fibrosarcoma in kittens. (05 Mar 2000) |
| feline oesophagus | <radiology> Multiple thin transverse folds seen on oesophagram, normal variant, may be secondary to, GE reflux, scleroderma (12 Dec 1998) |
| feline panleukopenia | A highly contagious DNA virus infection of the cat family and of mink, characterised by fever, enteritis and bone marrow changes. It is also called feline ataxia, feline agranulocytosis, feline infectious enteritis, cat fever, cat plague, show fever. (12 Dec 1998) |
| feline panleukopenia virus | A virus of the genus Parvovirus that causes panleukopenia; the virus infects all Felidae, raccoons and mink, but not dogs or other Canidae. Synonym: cat distemper virus, panleukopenia virus of cats. (05 Mar 2000) |
| feline pneumonitis | An infectious respiratory illness of domesticated cats caused by the bacterium Chlamydia psittaci. (05 Mar 2000) |
| feline polioencephalomyelitis | A chronic disease of cats characterised by paraparesis and ataxia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| feline rhinotracheitis virus | A herpesvirus that causes feline viral rhinotracheitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| feline sarcoma | <oncology, tumour> An oncogene carried by one of the strains of the feline sarcoma virus (the Snyder-Theilen strain, Garden-Rasheed strain, McDonough strain). It causes the development of sarcoma tumours in cats. The normal product of the gene (as a proto-oncogene) seems to be a kinase enzyme that phosphorylates (attaches phosphate groups to) the amino acid tyrosine in polypeptides. (09 Oct 1997) |
| feline sarcoma virus | <virology> A retrovirus which carries an oncogene that causes feline sarcoma (a tumour-causing disease) in cats. (09 Oct 1997) |
| feline urolithiasis syndrome | <syndrome> A common disease of cats where development of urinary calculi produce urethral obstruction in males and cystitis and urethritis in females. Synonym: feline urolithiasis syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| feline urological syndrome | <syndrome> A common disease of cats where development of urinary calculi produce urethral obstruction in males and cystitis and urethritis in females. Synonym: feline urolithiasis syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| feline viral rhinotracheitis | An acute upper respiratory tract infection of cats caused by the feline rhinotracheitis virus; it is frequently fatal in kittens but mild in adults, who sometimes become convalescent carriers of the virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| felis | <zoology> A genus of carnivorous mammals, including the domestic cat, the lion, tiger, panther, and similar animals. Origin: L, cat. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |