| CDE | canine distemper encephalitis; chlordiazepoxide; color Doppler energy [imaging]; common duct explora... |
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| CDV | canine distemper virus |
| CHV | canine herpes virus; centigrade heat unit |
| CMG | canine or congenital myasthenia gravis; chopped meat glucose [medium]; cystometrography, cystometrog... |
| CPP | cancer proneness phenotype; canine pancreatic polypeptide; cerebral perfusion pressure; chest pain p... |
| canine hereditary blindness | An autosomal dominant condition seen in dogs of the collie and several other breeds. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| canine herpesvirus | A herpesvirus causing an upper respiratory tract infection which becomes generalised in puppies under 1 week of age, terminating invariably in death; infection is milder in older puppies and asymptomatic in adult dogs; the latter may become convalescent viral shedders. (05 Mar 2000) |
| canine herpetovirus | An obsolete term for canine herpesvirus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| canine hysteria | Syndrome in dogs caused in ingestion of nitrogen trichloride, formerly in common use as a bleaching agent for flour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| canine infectious cyclic thrombocytopenia | An infection of dogs with the rickettsia Ehrlichia platys characterised by recurrent cyclic thrombocytopenia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| canine leishmaniasis | A mild infection of dogs, usually confined to the muzzle or ears, produced by human disease-causing species of Leishmania; dogs therefore are important reservoirs of human infection, such as with visceral leishmaniasis in the Mediterranean region. (05 Mar 2000) |
| canine malignant lymphoma | <tumour> A progressive fatal disease of dogs characterised by neoplastic transformation and proliferation of lymphoid cells, usually originating in solid lymphoid organs (lymphosarcoma) or bone marrow (lymphocytic leukaemia). (05 Mar 2000) |
| canine panosteitis | A disease of dogs characterised by intermittent shifting lameness and spontaneous remission. (05 Mar 2000) |
| canine parvovirus 2 | A virus causing canine parvovirus disease in dogs, an acute enteritis with panleukopenia and myocarditis. See: canine parvovirus disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| 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) |
| 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) |