Other Vocab

Here’s a dictionary of general vet vocab that I’ll regularly update, to help you with your studies.

Analgesic: painkillers. Analgesia is the relief from pain.

Anthropomorphism: associating human characteristics and interpretations to animals 

Anthrozoology: the study of animal-human interactions

Auscultation: listening to the internal sounds of organs such as heart and lungs using a stethoscope

Collegial: shared responsibility amongst colleagues

Congenital: present from birth

CRT: capillary refill time. Time it takes for gums to return to normal pink colour after pressing them.

Deontology: an ethical theory based around whether an act is morally right or wrong, regardless of what the outcome will be. 

Endoscopy: procedure where a tubular instrument (endoscope) is used to allow having a look into the internal structures of the body

Fasciculation: twitching or brief contractions of the muscle

Gravid: pregnant

Haematology: study of cause and treatment of blood diseases

Monopoly: when one person/group of people solely have control over the provision of a service/trade.

Negligence: failure to appropriately care for something

Normothermic: having a normal body temperature

Oncology: a study of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancers

Ovariohysterectomy: spay; surgery to remove the ovaries and uterus

Palpation: using hands and fingers to feel parts of the body in a physical examination

Prognosis: the predicted course of development of a disease

Scintigraphy: nuclear diagnostic test where radioisotopes enter the body via drugs and emit gamma radiation which is picked up by gamma ray detectors to form an image of a part of the body.

Utilitarianism: an ethical theory based around consequences and the fact that the best choice is the one with an outcome that is most beneficial to the most amount of people.