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Animal Husbandry
| Ad libitum | Also known as “free choice” feeding (food is accessible for them whenever wanted) |
| Body conditioning score | a number assigned to your pet based on evaluation of fat at a few key locations on their body |
| Capsid | protein coat that surrounds the genetic material of viruses |
| Concussion | a brain injury that is a violent shock or jarring of the brain tissue |
| Contusion | a bruise or injury with no break in the surface of the tissue |
| Disinfection | the destruction of pathogenic microorganisms or their toxins |
| Essential amino acids | Can’t be synthesized by the body, needs to be supplied in the diet |
| Etiology | the study of the causes of disease |
| Fibrosis | scarring; the end result of tissue repair |
| Granulation tissue | highly vascularized connective tissue produced after extensive tissue damage |
| Laceration | a tear or jagged wound |
| Necropsy | postmortem examination of an animal body |
| Nonessential amino acids | synthesized by the body, doesn’t need to be supplied in the diet |
| Nosocomial infection | Infection acquired in the hospital |
| Nutrient | constituent of food that is ingested to support life |
| Pathology | the study of diseases |
| Public health | local and state professionals who regularly consult on preventing exposures to and controlling diseases that humans can get from animals and animal products |
| Pyrogen | an agent in the body that increases the body’s biologic setting to a higher temperature |
| Reservoir | a location at which a pathogenic agent is maintained prior to transmission; often a living organism |
| Sanitizer | chemical agents that reduce the number of microorganisms to a safe level, without completely eliminating all of them |
| Toxoid | inactivated antigenic toxin molecules that stimulates development of the animals owns antibodies |
| Vaccine | a biologic product representing a pathogenic organism that stimulates immunity toward the pathogen |
| Virus | an extremely small non living infectious agent, which can cause disease in a wide variety of animals |
| Vitamins | are required by the body to carry out a range of normal functions, classified as either fat soluble or water soluble |
| Wound | an injury caused by physical means, with disruption of normal structures |
| Zoonosis | any disease or infection that is naturally transmissible between vertebrate animals and humans |
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