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Quiz: animals and vet terms
- What are x-ray images called?
- What term means animals that are active during the night and sleep during the day?
- What word beginning with the letter 'E' means the severe loss of body weight?
- Which animal has the highest blood pressure of all mammals?
- Which food item contains a chemical called 'theobromine', which is toxic to dogs?
- The broncho-oesophageal artery is found in which animals?
- Which nerve, also called the ischiadic nerve, is the largest nerve in vertebrate animals?
- Hydrophobia is the name for which disease?
- Adult dogs should have how many permanent teeth?
- Name the English veterinary surgeon who wrote the book "All Creatures Great and Small"?
- What name is given for the ridge between the shoulder blades of a horse?
- What is a device that can be implanted into a blood vessel to keep it from collapsing called?
- Common in rabbits, coprophagia is the eating of what?
- The adjective chelonian describes which animal?
- Animals, like humans, are prone to what joint disease that results from inflammation or degeneration?
- A hematoma is a bad what?
- An E-collar is a plastic cone placed around the neck to prevent an animal from licking at a wound. What does the 'E' stand for?
- Give the common name for the blood-sucking parasitic invertebrates that have 8 legs and can spread different diseases?
- Also called the udder or breast, which glands in female animals are used to produce milk?
- What condition with the technical term icterus is caused by a buildup of bilirubin in the body?
- What term means sterilization by surgical removal of the ovaries of a female animal or testicles of a male animal?
- Which term is a disease which can be transmitted between animals and people?
- CT scanners give us highly detailed images of your pet's tissue, organs and bone structures. What does CT stand for?
Answers
- Radiographs
- Nocturnal
- Emaciation
- The giraffe
- Chocolate
- Horses
- Sciatic
- Rabies
- 42 teeth
- James Herriot
- Withers
- Stent
- Dung or fecal matter
- Tortoises or turtles
- Arthritis
- Bruise
- An Elizabethan collar
- Tick
- Mammary gland
- Jaundice
- Neuter
- Zoonotic
- A computed tomography scan