| HBV | hepatitis B vaccine; hepatitis B virus |
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| HDV | hepatitis D virus; hepatitis delta virus |
| ACIP | acute canine idiopathic polyneuropathy; Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices [CDC] |
| CDE | canine distemper encephalitis; chlordiazepoxide; color Doppler energy [imaging]; common duct explora... |
| CDV | canine distemper virus |
| canine parvovirus disease | An acute disease of dogs with a variable mortality rate caused by the canine parvovirus; seen in three distinct clinical forms; a generalised neonatal disease, a severe nonsuppurative myocarditis, and a frequently fatal enteritis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| canine prominence | An elevation on the maxilla corresponding to the socket of the canine tooth. Synonym: canine prominence. (05 Mar 2000) |
| canine spasm | The semblance of a grin caused by facial spasm especially in tetanus. Synonym: canine spasm, cynic spasm, risus sardonicus, sardonic grin, spasmus caninus, trismus sardonicus. Origin: L. Risus, laugh + caninus, doglike (05 Mar 2000) |
| canine tooth | <dentistry> A tooth having a crown of thick conical shape and a long, slightly flattened conical root; there are two canine teeth in each jaw, one on either side adjacent to the distal surface of the lateral incisors, in both the deciduous and the permanent dentition. Synonym: dens caninus, canine, cuspid tooth, cuspidate tooth, cuspid, dens angularis, dens cuspidatus, eye tooth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| canine typhus | The uraemic form of canine leptospirosis. Synonym: canine typhus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| canine venereal granuloma | A rapidly growing, soft, easily bleeding, infectious, connective tissue tumour occurring in the vagina of the female dog and on the penis and sheath of the male; ordinarily transmitted by coitus. Synonym: transmissible venereal tumour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| parvovirus, canine | A species host range variant (subspecies) of feline parvovirus (parvovirus, feline) of the genus parvovirus. It causes a highly infectious fulminating enteritis in dogs producing high mortality. It is distinct from minute virus of canines, another parvovirus which is sometimes also called canine parvovirus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| coronavirus, canine | A species of coronavirus infecting dogs. Onset is usually sudden and includes vomiting, diarrhoea, and dehydration. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hip dysplasia, canine | A hereditary disease of the hip joints in dogs. Signs of the disease may be evident any time after 4 weeks of age. (12 Dec 1998) |
| distemper virus, canine | A species of morbillivirus causing distemper in dogs, wolves, foxes, raccoons, and ferrets. (12 Dec 1998) |
| tropical canine pancytopenia | A fatal disease of dogs in Asia, Africa, and the U.S. Caused by Ehrlichia canis, transmitted by the tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus, and characterised by haemorrhage, pancytopenia, and emaciation. Synonym: tropical canine pancytopenia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acute infectious nonbacterial gastroenteritis | An epidemic, highly communicable but rather mild disease of sudden onset, caused by the epidemic gastroenteritis virus (especially Norwalk agent), with an incubation period of 16 to 48 hours and a duration of 1 to 2 days, which affects all age groups; infection is associated with some fever, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, and headache, one or another of which may be predominant. Synonym: acute infectious nonbacterial gastroenteritis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| arthritis, infectious | Arthritis caused by bacteria, rickettsiae, mycoplasmas, viruses, fungi, or parasites. Bacterial arthritis is frequently caused by staphylococcus aureus, streptococcus pneumoniae, haemophilus influenzae, and neisseria gonorrhoeae. Viral arthritis is less common than bacterial arthritis and may be a manifestation of such viral diseases as mumps, rubella, hepatitis, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| avian infectious encephalomyelitis | <veterinary> A disease of very young chicks caused by a picornavirus and characterised by tremor, ataxia, somnolence, and finally death. Synonym: epidemic tremor. (05 Mar 2000) |
| avian infectious laryngotracheitis virus | <virology> A herpesvirus causing avian infectious laryngotracheitis. (05 Mar 2000) |