Week 3 (20)

Question 1

Strangles

Answer 1

respiratory disease that is highly contagious and caused by Streptococcus equi equi.

Question 2

Guttural pouch Disease

Answer 2

two large symmetric dilation’s of the eustachian tube. Located just above the pharynx and larynx

Question 3

Herpes

Answer 3

a contagious virus that produces respiratory disease, abortion, and neonatal and neurologic disease

Question 4

Heaves

Answer 4

recurrent airway obstruction is an allergic airway disease caused by airway inflammation and bronchoconstriction

Question 5

Inflaamatory airway disease

Answer 5

common cause of poor performance in horses. cause of IAD is unknown

Question 6

Bacterial Pneumonia and Pleuropneumonia

Answer 6

result of aspiration of bacteria that normally inhabits the oral cavity and upper respiratory tract

Question 7

Second-degree AV block

Answer 7

common arrhythmia in horses, especially athletic horses. The atria contracts without the ventricles

Question 8

Atrial Fibrillation

Answer 8

most common clinically relevant arrhythmia in horses. Predisposed cause of the large size of theirr atria

Question 9

Viral arteritis

Answer 9

contagious viral disease that produces limb swelling, conjunctivitis, abortion, and respiratory disease

Question 10

Equine Infectious Anemia

Answer 10

persistent viral disease of horses that causes anemia, fever, and weight loss

Question 11

Anaplasmosis

Answer 11

equine granulocytic ehrlichiosis is a bacterial infection

Question 12

Lyme disease

Answer 12

infection with the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi. Caused by biting of ticks

Question 13

Colic

Answer 13

gut stasis

Question 14

Gastric and Colonic Ulceration

Answer 14

stress, a high-grain diet, musculoskeletal pain, and NSAID administration

Question 15

Colitis

Answer 15

rapid, life-threatening fluid loss, shock, and endotoxemia.

Question 16

Endotoxemia

Answer 16

the presence of bacteria in the body

Question 17

Patomac Horse fever

Answer 17

caused by N. risticii and produces diarrhea, fever, abortion, and laminitis

Question 18

Choke

Answer 18

obstruction of the esophagus

Question 19

Gastrointestinal Neoplasia

Answer 19

Lymphosarcoma is the most common and can cause weight loss, diarrhea, and hypoalbuminemia

Question 20

Lymphosarcoma

Answer 20

cancer of lymphocytes

Question 21

Liver disease

Answer 21

can result from toxic infections, inflammatory, metabolic, obstructive, and neoplastic causes

Question 22

Rabies

Answer 22

zoonotic infectious that is fatal. Usually get it from a bite wound of a rabid animal

Question 23

Viral equine Encephalitis

Answer 23

four types, Eastern, Western, Venezuelan, and West Nile virus

Question 24

Leukoencephalomalacia

Answer 24

moldy corn toxicity

Question 25

Head Trauma

Answer 25

frontal impact will fracture the frontal and perietal bones. Common neurologic signs include abnormalities of balance, incoordination of limbs, nystagmus, and abnormal respiratory patters

Question 26

Temperohyoid Osteoarthropathy

Answer 26

arthritis of the junction of the stylohyoid bone and temporal bones in the head

Question 27

Wobbler Syndrome

Answer 27

cervical vertebral malformation is a manifestation of developmental orthopedic disease characterized by compression of the cervical spinal cord

Question 28

Equine Protozoal Myelitis

Answer 28

common cause of neurologic disease in horses

Question 29

Equine Degenerative Myelopathy

Answer 29

symmetric spinal ataxia that is more sever in the hindlimbs than int he forelimbs

Question 30

Tetanus

Answer 30

highly fatal neurological disease in horses characterized by a stiff , stilted gait, hyperexcitability, seizure, and coma