Diseases

Diseases

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Diseases

A transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (prion disease) of deer and elk characterized by chronic weight loss leading to death. It is thought to spread by direct contact between animals or through ...

bovine spongiform encephalopathy

Health care; Diseases

A transmissible spongiform encephalopathy of cattle associated with abnormal prion proteins in the brain. Affected animals develop excitability and salivation followed by ataxia. This disorder has ...

Marek disease

Health care; Diseases

A transmissible viral disease of birds caused by avian herpesvirus 2 (herpesvirus 2, gallid) and other Marek's disease-like viruses. There is lymphoid cell infiltration or lymphomatous tumor ...

Walker carcinoma 256

Health care; Diseases

A transplantable carcinoma of the rat that originally appeared spontaneously in the mammary gland of a pregnant albino rat, and which now resembles a carcinoma in young transplants and a sarcoma in ...

Ehrlich tumor carcinoma

Health care; Diseases

A transplantable, poorly differentiated malignant tumor which appeared originally as a spontaneous breast carcinoma in a mouse. It grows in both solid and ascitic forms.

Reiter disease

Health care; Diseases

A triad of nongonococcal urethritis followed by conjunctivitis and arthritis, of unknown etiology.

pancreatic cyst

Health care; Diseases

A true cyst of the pancreas to be distinguished from the much more common pancreatic pseudocyst by possessing a mucous epithelial lining. Pancreatic cysts are categorized as congenital, retention, ...