| NRBC | National Rare Blood Club; normal red blood cell; nucleated red blood cell |
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| RBC | red blood cell; red blood corpuscle; red blood count |
| WBC | well baby care/clinic; white blood cell; white blood cell count; whole blood cell count |
| AAALAC | American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care |
| AALAS | American Association of Laboratory Animal Science |
| physical conditioning, animal | Physical conditioning of domestic, laboratory, and zoo animals. Includes exercising of animals. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| warm-blooded animal | <biology, zoology> An organism that maintains a constant internal body temperature. (09 Oct 1997) |
| cold-blooded animal | <biology, zoology> An organism, such as a fish or reptile, that is cold-blooded, i.e., one whose internal body temperature varies with that of the environment. (09 Oct 1997) |
| control animal | In research, an animal submitted to the same conditions as the others used for the experiment, but with the crucial factor (such as the injection of antitoxin, the administration of a drug, etc.) omitted. See: control, control experiment. (05 Mar 2000) |
| conventional animal | An animal colonised by the burden of resident microorganisms normally associated with its particular species. (05 Mar 2000) |
| salmonella infections, animal | Infections in animals with bacteria of the genus salmonella. (12 Dec 1998) |
| helminthiasis, animal | Infestation of animals with parasitic worms of the helminth class. The infestation may be experimental or veterinary. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hepatitis, viral, animal | Viral hepatitis in animals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| protozoan infections, animal | Infections with unicellular organisms of the subkingdom protozoa. The infections may be experimental or veterinary. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sentinel animal | An animal deliberately placed in a particular environment to detect the presence of an infectious agent, such as a virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Houssay animal | An animal that has been pancreatectomised and hypophysectomised. Named after the discoverer of the principle that animal's are more sensitive to insulin after removal of the pituitary, and that after this operation the intensity of diabetes in depancreatised animal's is diminished. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sex behaviour, animal | Sexual activities of animals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| normal animal | In research, an experimental animal that has neither suffered an attack of a particular disease nor received an injection of a specific microorganism or its toxin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| disease models, animal | Animal disease whose pathologic mechanisms are sufficiently similar to those of a different human disease for the animal disease to serve as a model. The animal disease may be either induced or naturally occurring so long as it is not the same clinical entity as the disease for which it serves as a model. E.g., scrapie is an animal model for multiple sclerosis, which has never been found or induced in an animal. (12 Dec 1998) |
| eliminative behaviour, animal | Behaviour associated with the elimination of feces and urine from the body. (12 Dec 1998) |