This page gathers the 80 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Veterinary”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples.
- abattage noun The slaughter of animals, especially diseased ones to limit the spread of the disease.
- abligation noun The suturing or tying up of a body part.
- acetonemia noun Presence of excessive levels of acetone in blood, sometimes occurring in cows during the first weeks after giving birth to a calf.
- anticoccidial adj That counteracts coccidiosis
- aphtha noun Foot-and-mouth disease.
- azoturia noun A condition that affects the muscles of horses, ranging from stiffness and mild cramps to the horse becoming unable to stand, with…
- bane verb To cause (sheep) a disease, especially the rot (“a disease in which breakdown of tissue occurs”).
- bastard strangles noun A form of strangles, a bacterial upper respiratory tract infection of horses potentially causing airway obstruction, that has spread to…
- blackleg noun A fatal cattle disease caused by the soil-borne bacterium Clostridium chauvoei; symptomatic anthrax.
- blistering noun The practice of forming blisters on the skin, to promote blood flow and aid healing.
- bloat verb To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
- breakdown noun Injury to a horse's leg causing lameness; (countable) an instance of this.
- chronic wasting disease noun A transmissible spongiform encephalopathy found in deer, typified by chronic weight loss leading to death.
- corn noun An inflammatory disease of a horse's hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.
- coxy noun Coccidiosis.
- debark verb To devocalize (a dog).
- declaw verb To surgically remove the claws of (an animal); to perform onychectomy on.
- demodectic mange noun Mange in dogs caused by a sensitivity to and overpopulation of Demodex canis, the demodectic mange mite.
- dental noun Cleaning and polishing of an animal's teeth.
- disbud verb To remove horn-buds from a young calf, lamb or goat kid, to prevent growth of horns.
- disbudding noun In the raising of domesticated animals with horns, such as goats, sheep, and cows, the removal of the undeveloped horns from a young animal.
- distemper noun A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
- down adj Stranded in a recumbent position; unable to stand.
- drench noun A dose or draught of liquid medicine administered to an animal.
- Elizabethan collar noun A protective medical device worn by an animal, usually a cat or a dog, shaped like a truncated cone, to prevent the animal from biting or…
- emasculator noun A type of clamp used to crush the spermatic cord when castrating livestock.
- encephalomyocarditis noun A viral disease afflicting pigs and some non-human primates, attacking muscle tissue and the central nervous system.
- eponychium noun The protective capsule that surrounds the hoof of foetuses and neonates of hoofed animals, which disappears soon after birth, but remnants…
- equine rhabdomyelosis noun A condition that affects the muscles of horses, ranging from stiffness and mild cramps to the horse becoming unable to stand and producing…
- euthanasiate noun Any drug used to euthanize an animal.
- exotic adj Denoting or relating to any animal that is not a cat or dog, requiring specialised healthcare
- farcical adj Pertaining to farcy.
- feline infectious peritonitis noun An uncommon but usually fatal cat disease caused by an aberrant immune response to infection with feline coronavirus (FCoV).
- felon noun A small infected sore; an abscess, a boil.
- floating noun A veterinary dental procedure involving the filing down of sharp surfaces on a horse's teeth.
- founder noun A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
- giddy noun Synonym of gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae”).
- grass tetany noun A metabolic disease of ruminants, involving magnesium deficiency, and usually occurring after grazing on pastures of rapidly growing grass.
- hardware disease noun Traumatic gastrointestinal puncture and infection in ruminants (especially cattle) and birds that ingest a sharp object (in livestock…
- head pressing noun The condition, in certain mammals, of pressing the head or face against a wall or into a corner for no apparent reason, usually a sign of…
- heartworm noun A parasitic organism that afflicts dogs, of species Dirofilaria immitis of roundworms.
- hemangiosarcoma noun A fast-growing, highly invasive variety of cancer, a sarcoma arising from the lining of blood vessels, occurring almost exclusively in dogs…
- immunity gap noun The time period during which a young mammal no longer receives effective immunity to diseases from antibodies in its mother's milk but its…
- imp verb To engraft (a feather) on to a broken feather in a bird's wing or tail to repair it; to engraft (feathers) on to a bird, or a bird's wing…
- lask noun Originally of both persons and animals, now only of animals: looseness of the bowels; diarrhoea; (countable) a bout of this ailment.
- magistery noun A medicine prepared for a specific use.
- measles noun Synonym of cysticercosis: A disease of livestock or meat caused by the presence of tapeworm larvae.
- megrims noun Any of various diseases of animals, especially horses, marked by a disturbance of equilibrium and abnormal gait and behaviour such as…
- milk fever noun An acute metabolic disorder occurring at the start of lactation and caused by calcium deficiency, which primarily affects dairy cows.
- murrain noun Any of several highly infectious diseases of cattle or other livestock, such as anthrax, babesiosis, or rinderpest; or a particular…
- nagana noun A disease of vertebrates in southern Africa, characterised by swelling and lethargy and caused by trypanosomes transmitted by tsetse flies.
- onychectomy noun Surgically remove the distal phalange of each digit of the forefeet of a cat.
- pano noun paneosteitis
- parrot fever noun An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Chlamydophila psittaci and contracted from many species of bird.
- patent adj Of an infection: in the phase when the organism causing it can be detected by clinical tests.
- primipara noun A woman or female animal during or after her first pregnancy.
- rabbit board noun A board on which a rabbit may be immobilised.
- reticuloperitonitis noun Inflammation of the reticulum and the peritoneum in ruminants, which is usually caused by, part of, and metonymically synonymous with…
- scour verb To clear the digestive tract (of an animal) by administering medication that induces defecation or vomiting; to purge.
- scours noun Diarrhea in horses and cattle caused by intestinal infection.
- scur noun A distorted horn, regrown after the disbudding operation of a goat, sheep, or cow.
- scurvy noun A cattle disease, perhaps affecting the skin.
- selamectin noun A topical compound used in veterinary medicine that disables parasites by replacing glutamate in their muscle synapses.
- shabby adj Chiefly of sheep: affected by shab or scab (“a skin disease”); scabby.
- shunt noun An abnormal passage between body channels.
- slobbers noun Any of various conditions in which an animal drools excessively (for example due to mycotoxicosis or problems with its teeth).
- snare noun A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
- snifters noun A disease of poultry causing a nasal discharge.
- spavin noun A bony swelling which develops in a horse's leg where the shank and splint bone meet, caused by inflammation of the cartilage connecting…
- spavined adj Of a horse: having spavin (“a disease of horses caused by a bony swelling which develops in a leg due to inflammation”).
- splint noun A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
- squeeze box noun A container that fits tightly around an animal to immobilize it for medical treatment, transportation, etc.
- stagger noun A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
- stifle noun A bone disease of this region.
- tethered adj Tied, strapped, especially with tethers or hobbles.
- thiobutabarbital noun A short-acting barbiturate derivative (trademark Inactin) which has sedative, anticonvulsant and hypnotic effects and is used in veterinary…
- throw verb Of animals: to give birth to (young).
- vachette noun A piece of strong steel wire with the ends curved and pointed, used on toe or quarter cracks to bind the edges together and prevent motion.…
- ventriduct verb To bring, carry, or draw the head of an animal (or another body part) toward the belly or the lower (ventral) surface.
- wicket noun A device to measure the height of animals, usually dogs.