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primary purpose of vets
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to serve society- guardians of animal welfare
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________ medicine is veterinary medicine
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comparative
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disease
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any state other than a state of complete health
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what does DAMN IT stand for? (the damn it system)
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Degenerative, Anomaly/autoimmune, Metabolic, Nutritional/Neurotic, Infectious, Toxic/Trauma
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pathology
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the study of the essential nature of diseases
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etiology
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the cause of disease or the study of causes of disease
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Koch's 4 postulates
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1- the microorganism must be found in diseased animals, but not healthy ones. 2- the microorganism must be isolated from a diseased animal and grown in pure culture. 3- disease causation when introduced into healthy organism. 4- microorganism must be re-isolated from the diseased experimental host
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an exception to Koch's 1st postulate (must be found in diseased animals, but not healthy)
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e coli
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4 ways to describe disease
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clinical, subclinical, acute, chronic
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difference between clinical and subclinical disease
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subclinical can't be detected just by looking at the organism
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4 things that help to diagnose a disease
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husbandry skills, scientific techniques, analytic ability, "art of detection" (intuition, luck)
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zoonosis
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an infectious disease that can spread from animals to humans or vice versa
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