| AVH | acute viral hepatitis |
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| VH | vaginal hysterectomy; venous hematocrit; ventricular hypertrophy; veterans hospital; viral hepatitis... |
| DEV | Duck Embryo Vaccine |
| DAV | data valid; Disabled American Veterans; duck adenovirus |
| DEV | deviant, deviation; duck embryo vaccine or virus |
| buffel duck | <zoology> A small duck (Charitonetta albeola); the spirit duck, or butterball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Synonym: bufflehead. See: Buffalo. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| vicissy duck | <zoology> A West Indian duck, sometimes domesticated. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| muscovy duck | <zoology> A duck (Cairina moschata), larger than the common duck, often raised in poultry yards. Called also musk duck. It is native of tropical America, from Mexico to Southern Brazil. Origin: A corruption of musk duck. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea duck | <zoology> Any one of numerous species of ducks which frequent the seacoasts and feed mainly on fishes and mollusks. The scoters, eiders, old squaw, and ruddy duck are examples. They may be distinguished by the lobate hind toe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| new duck disease | A contagious disease of young ducks and turkeys caused by the bacterium Pasteurella anatipestifer and characterised in ducks by ocular and nasal discharges, coughing and sneezing, and incoordination, and in turkeys by dyspnea, droopiness, lameness, and a twisted neck. Synonym: new duck disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| duck | 1. <zoology> Any bird of the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae. The genera and species are numerous. They are divided into river ducks and sea ducks. Among the former are the common domestic duck (Anas boschas); the wood duck (Aix sponsa); the beautiful mandarin duck of China (Dendronessa galeriliculata); the Muscovy duck, originally of South America (Cairina moschata). Among the sea ducks are the eider, canvasback, scoter, etc. Bombay duck, a small aquatic mammal of Australia, having webbed feet and a bill resembling that of a duck (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). It belongs the subclass Monotremata and is remarkable for laying eggs like a bird or reptile; called also duckbill, platypus, mallangong, mullingong, tambreet, and water mole. 2. A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water. "Here be, without duck or nod, Other trippings to be trod." (Milton) Origin: OE. Duke, doke. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| duck embryo origin vaccine | See: rabies vaccine. (05 Mar 2000) |
| duck influenza virus | An influenza A virus, a member of the family Orthomyxoviridae, distinct from human influenza A strains on bases of haemagglutination-inhibition. (05 Mar 2000) |
| duck plague | A viral enteritis of ducks and other waterfowl in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. Caused by an anatid herpes virus 1; manifested by weakness, lethargy, and diarrhoea accompanied by catarrhal haemorrhagic enteritis and echymotic haemorrhages in organs and muscles. Synonym: duck viral enteritis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| duck plague virus | A herpesvirus that causes duck plague. (05 Mar 2000) |
| duck's-bill | <zoology> Having the form of a duck's bill. Duck's-bill limpet, a limpet of the genus Parmaphorus; so named from its shape. (04 Mar 1998) |
| duck's-foot | <botany> The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| duck's-meat | <botany> Duckweed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| acute viral conjunctivitis | An epidemic inflammation of the conjunctiva marked by follicles, especially in the lower fornix; may be caused by adenoviruses, herpesvirus, and Newcastle disease virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| antibodies, viral | Immunoglobulins produced as a response to viral antigens; includes all classes of immunoglobulins elicited by all viral components. (12 Dec 1998) |