Chapter 7 - Husbandry Flashcards
Any drug used to treat infection caused by bacteria or other micro organisms
Antibiotic
A blood protein produced in response to and counteracting a specific antigen
Antibodies
The study of domestic animal behavior
Applied ethology
A negative experience that may be painful, frightening, or nauseating. It may involve the senses
Aversive event
The type of conditioning Ivan Pavlov demonstrating, in which reflex-like response can be stimulated by a neutral stimulus
Classical conditioning
Observable difference in an animals normal function or state of health that indicates the presence of a bodily disorder or disease
Clinical sign
State of being other than that of complete healthy. Disturbance of normal function of the body or its parts
Disease
An animals place in the social ranking (pecking order)
Dominance
A catalog or inventory of all of the behaviors an animal exhibits in its natural environment
Ethogram
The study of animals in their natural surroundings (applied)
Ethology
The factor that causes a disease or the study of the factors that cause disease
Etiology
The distance which an animal is caused to flee from an intruder
Flight zone
Operant conditioning; an animals ability to eventually ignore something that occurs often
Habituation
Learning that has restrictive conditions and times when it can occur
Imprint learning
Diseases caused by living organisms, which involve and multiply in or on the body and result in damage to the body
Infectious disease
Abnormal changes in body organs because of injury or disease
Lesion
The examination of a body after death
Necropsy
Anything new or sudden in an animals environment
Novelty
An organism that lives at the expense of a host organism
Parasite
Any living disease-producing agent
Pathogen
A craving for and willingness to eat unnatural feedstuffs. Often caused by nutrient deficiencies.
Pica
A nonfunctional, repetitive, and intentional behavior. Are often rhythmic
Stereotypic behavior
A physical, emotional, or chemical factor causing body or mental strain or tension
Stress
Animal, usually an arthropod, that transfers an infectious agent from one host to another
Vector
A DNA molecule that carries foreign DNA in a host cell, replicated inside a bacterial cell, and produces many copies of itself
Vector
The length of time an antibiotic must be administered or fed to an animal before the animal can be legally slaughtered
Withdrawal time
The ability to be passed from animals to humans under natural conditions
Zoonotic
A drug or chemical agent used to kill or remove internal parasites
Anthelmintic
A foreign substance, that when introduced into tissue or blood, causes the formation of antibodies
Antigen
Medicinal products used primarily to prevent disease. Includes serums, vaccines, antigen, antitoxins, etc.
Biologicals
Chemical agents used to treat or prevent disease
Chemotherapeutics
To give fluid by mouth
Drench
The sum total of all external conditions that affect the well-being and performance of an animal.
Environment
The ability to learn to adjust successfully to conditions or situations
Intelligence
Measurement of illness
Morbidity
The number of animals in a group that become sick over a specified period of time
Morbidity rate
Diarrhea; a profuse watery discharge from the intestines
Scours
Under the skin
Subcutaneous
Range in temperature when rate and efficiency of gain is maximized; also known as the comfort zone
Thermo-neutral zone
Suspension of attenuated or killed microbes or toxins administered to induce active immunity
Vaccine
Causing ultramicroscopic bundle of genetic material capable of multiplying only in living cells
Virus
