Concise Veterinary Dictionary - Hardcover

Brown, CM; Hogg, D. A.; Kelly, DF

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198542089 ISBN 13: 9780198542087

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1988

Synopsis

This compact, authoritative dictionary is written at a level that makes it indispensable to veterinary students and vets themselves without making it unintelligible to farmers, workers in the livestock industry, and animal researchers throughout the English–speaking world. It also provides pet owners with a valuable home reference book and a gloss with which to interpret the vet′s jargon

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Synopsis

This dictionary, compiled by an Anglo-American team of veterinary specialists, is written at a level that should be of use to veterinary students and pet owners, as well as vets and farmers. It contains 7000 headwords, 200 line drawings and a glossary with which to interpret the vet's jargon. The wide range of subjects covered include animal husbandry, biochemistry, diagnostic techniques, diseases of livestock and other domestic animals, disease-causing organisms and their vectors, drugs used to treat and prevent disease, endocrinology, genetics, histology, immunology, laws relating to animals and diseases, meat inspection, physiology, skeletal components and body organs, stockbreeding, surgical operations and instruments, toxicology, veterinary institutions and animal welfare bodies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198542089
• ISBN 13: 9780198542087
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 896