| SABP | spontaneous acute bacterial peritonitis |
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| SBP | schizobipolar; serotonin-binding protein; spontaneous bacterial peritonitis; steroid-binding plasma ... |
| TBP | bithionol; testosterone-binding protein; thyroxine-binding protein; total bypass; tributyl phosphate... |
| EIAV | equine infectious anemia virus |
| EIVA | equine infectious anemia virus |
| fibrocaseous peritonitis | Peritonitis characterised by caseation and fibrosis, usually caused by the tubercle bacillus. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| localised peritonitis | Peritonitis confined to a demarcated region of the peritoneal cavity. Synonym: circumscribed peritonitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| calicivirus, feline | A species of the genus calicivirus, an RNA virus infecting cats. Transmission occurs via air and mechanical contact. (12 Dec 1998) |
| parvovirus, feline | A species of parvovirus chiefly affecting young cats in endemic areas, but all felines are susceptible, even lions and tigers. It also affects mink and raccoons. Host range variants (called subspecies by some authors) include feline panleukopenia virus, mink enteritis virus, canine parvovirus (parvovirus, canine), and raccoon parvovirus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| feline | <zoology> Relating to, affecting, resembling or derived from a cat. (09 Oct 1997) |
| feline acquired immunodeficiency syndrome | <syndrome> Acquired defect of cellular immunity that occurs in cats infected with feline immunodeficiency virus (fiv) and in some cats infected with feline leukaemia virus (felv). (12 Dec 1998) |
| feline agranulocytosis | A highly contagious and fatal disease of cats, particularly young cats, caused by feline panleukopenia virus, a member of the family Parvoviridae, and manifested by severe leukopenia, prostration, fever, vomiting and diarrhoea. Synonym: distemper, feline agranulocytosis, feline distemper, feline infectious enteritis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| feline distemper | A highly contagious and fatal disease of cats, particularly young cats, caused by feline panleukopenia virus, a member of the family Parvoviridae, and manifested by severe leukopenia, prostration, fever, vomiting and diarrhoea. Synonym: distemper, feline agranulocytosis, feline distemper, feline infectious enteritis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| 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) |
| 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 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 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 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) |