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Quidding
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Condition in which food is taken into the mouth and chewed but falls from the mouth
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Regurgitation
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Return of swallowed food into the oral cavity; a passive event compared with the force involved with vomiting.
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Salivary mucocele
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Collection of saliva that has leaked from a damaged salivary gland or duct and is surrounded by granulation tissue.
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Scours
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Diarrhea in livestock
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Shunt
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To bypass or divert. In a portosystemic shunt, blood vessels bypass the liver and the blood is not detoxified properly
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Stenosis
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Narrowing of an opening. The term stenosis usually is used with a descriptive term in front of it. Pyloric stenosis is narrowing of the pylorus as it leads into the duodenum
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Stomatitis
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Inflammation of the mouth
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Tenesmus
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Painful, ineffective defecation; also means painful, ineffective urination, but is rarely used in this context.
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Torsion
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Axial twist; twist around the long axis of gut
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Trichobezoar
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Hairball. Trich/o means hair
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Ulcer
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Erosion of tissue
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Volvulus
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Twisting on itself (End to end twist); twist around long axis of mesentery.
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