animal medicine

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• laboratory animal medicine — a specialty of veterinary medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease in animals used as subjects in biomedical activities …   Medical dictionary

• animal model — n an animal sufficiently like humans in its anatomy, physiology, or response to a pathogen to be used in medical research in order to obtain results that can be extrapolated to human medicine also a pathological or physiological condition that… …   Medical dictionary

• animal protein factor — n vitamin B12 or a concentrate containing this vitamin and usu. antibiotics that is obtained esp. in the fermentation production of vitamin B12 and chlortetracycline and is used as a supplement in some animal and poultry feeds …   Medical dictionary

• animal heat — n body heat …   Medical dictionary

• animal kingdom — n a basic group of natural objects that includes all living and extinct animals compare MINERAL KINGDOM, PLANT KINGDOM …   Medical dictionary

• animal magnetism — n a spiritlike force alleged by the Austrian physician Franz Anton Mesmer (1734 1815) to reside within himself and to be active in his use of therapeutic hypnosis see MESMERISM …   Medical dictionary

• animal pole — n the point on the surface of an egg that is diametrically opposite to the vegetal pole and usu. marks the most active part of the protoplasm or the part containing least yolk * * * 1. the site of an oocyte to which the nucleus is approximated,… …   Medical dictionary

• animal psychology — n a branch of psychology concerned with the behavior of animals other than humans * * * the study of the mental activity of animals …   Medical dictionary

• animal starch — n GLYCOGEN …   Medical dictionary

• animal — 1. A living, sentient organism that has membranous cell walls, requires oxygen and organic foods, and is capable of voluntary movement, as distinguished from a plant or mineral. 2. One of the lower a. organisms as distinguished from humans. [L.]… …   Medical dictionary

• animal black — SYN: animal charcoal. * * * bone black animal charcoal …   Medical dictionary