The impact of humans on wildlife is massive, but it has also been the focus of more than a century of regulation, which does a lot (still not enough) to limit that impact. So why shouldn’t cats be subject to some regulation? Cats shouldn’t get a free pass just because other things...
Tear staining, more often than not, is noticed on white pets but can affect any color pet. It makes the color of the coat around the eyes a brown, red, or copper color. It has always been believed that tear staining comes from epiphora (or excessive tear production) – but that’s n...
The tissue that holds the leaflets of your mitral valve in place can stretch and tear due to traumatic injury to your chest, as can mitral valve prolapse. Infective endocarditis. This is inflammation of the lining of your heart’s valves and chambers. It’s a type of bacterial infection tha...
Plasmodium falciparum, the causative agent of the most severe form of malaria in humans, undergoes an intraerythrocytic replication process that results in the clinical manifestations of the disease. Because rapid, con- stitutive growth and expansion is central to the intraerythrocytic growth stages, ...
Cleft lip and/or palate is present in three individuals (i.e., two individuals with a PTV and one individual with a multigenic deletion). Ocular abnormalities (ptosis, strabismus, nystagmus, tear duct aplasia, coloboma) are nonspecific and uncommon. Figure 1C shows a facial composite image of...
1 A herniated nucleus pulposus of an astronaut at surgery. This intraoperative photo shows the L2/3 intervertebral disc of an astronaut whose symptoms started shortly after spaceflight. The herniation is atypical in that the disruption of the annulus (a) occurred as a sharp horizontal tear just ...
There is never a time I do not suggest reducing stress. When the body is under stress, digestion is not prioritized. This results in under-production of stomach acid and enzymes. Digestive juices provide a protective role in sterilizing the food we eat which maintains the optional balance in...
detached retina,eyedisorder involving separation of the transparent light-sensing portion of theretinafrom the underlying layer of supporting cells known as theretinal pigment epithelium. Most commonly, retinal detachments are caused by the passage of fluid through a break, or tear, in the retina, ...
tear duct and glands optic nerve eyelid visual pigment See all related content human eye, inhumans, specialized senseorgancapable of receiving visual images, which are then carried to thebrain. Anatomy of the visual apparatus Structures auxiliary to the eye ...
If a rescued animal has no obvious injury, the prevalence of the disease can vary greatly in relation to how much additional testing is performed. In addition, many wildlife-related investigations have focused on a few diseases that affect humans and livestock. In general, wildlife clinics have ...