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Dental pad of domestic livestock. Note the lack of upper incisors and canine teeth. The dental pad or browsing pad is a feature of ruminant and camelids [1] dental anatomy that results from a lack of upper incisors and helps them gather large quantities of grass and other plant matter. [2] [3] This feature can be found in ruminants such as ...
It is most common in dairy cattle and can occur in beef cows occasionally with hypocalcaemia. [1] It is not as commonly seen in heifers, but occasionally can be seen in dairy heifers and most commonly Herefords. [citation needed] Uterine prolapse is considered a medical emergency that puts the cow at risk of shock or death by blood loss. [2]
Bovine prolapsed vagina can occur when the cow is near calving, in the late phases of cow's pregnancy (usually last trimester). [1] Sometimes cow's cervix prolapses along its vagina, [5] and such condition is known as the bovine cervico-vaginal prolapse. [3] [6] It can happen that cow's urinary bladder gets contained within the prolapsed vagina ...
A cannula in a cow's side. A cannulated cow or fistulated cow refers to a cow that has been surgically fitted with a cannula. [1] A cannula acts as a porthole-like device that allows access to the rumen of a cow, to perform research and analysis of the digestive system and to allow veterinarians to transplant rumen contents from one cow to another.
It was theorized that positive selection for shovel-shaped incisors over the spatulate incisors is more commonly found within cultures that used their teeth as tools due to a greater structural strength in increased shovel-shaped incisors. [2] In some instances, incisors can present a more pronounced version of this called double shovel-shaped.
Rare deep-sea fish with 'needle-sharp teeth' washes ashore. A rare fish with menacing features washed up on a San Diego, Calif. shore in early December. The beachgoer who first uncovered it said ...
Surgical suture on needle holders. Catgut suture in a vintage glass dispenser. Catgut suture is a type of surgical suture made of twisted strands of purified collagen taken from the small intestine of domesticated ruminants or beef tendon. It is naturally degraded by the body's own proteolytic enzymes.
A cow magnet is a veterinary medical device for the treatment or prevention of hardware disease in cattle. [1] Traditionally, cow magnets were strong Alnico magnets about 1 by 8 cm (0.39 by 3.15 in) in the shape of a smoothed rod, but today they are more commonly several ring-shaped ferrite magnets attached to a stainless-steel or plastic core ...