Thursday, March 12, 2009

Digestive signs

  • Parasites passed per rectum, in stools, feces
  • Polyphagia, excessive appetite
  • Anorexia, loss or decreased appetite, not nursing, off feed
  • Pica, depraved appetite
  • Difficulty in prehending or chewing food
  • Inability to open and/or close beak
  • Inability to open (trismus) and/or close jaw, mouth
  • Malformation of jaw, brachygnathia, prognathia
  • Cleft palate or lip
  • Malformation of the beak
  • Swelling of the beak
  • Cracked beak
  • Abnormal color of the beak
  • Dryness oral mucosa
  • Congestion oral mucous membranes, erythema, redness oral mucosa
  • Oral mucosal ulcers, vesicles, plaques, pustules, erosions, tears
  • Excessive salivation, frothing at the mouth, ptyalism
  • Loose teeth, tooth
  • Extra tooth, increased number of teeth
  • Absence of tooth, decreased number of teeth
  • Retained deciduous tooth, teeth
  • Excessive or irregular tooth wear, teeth
  • Malocclusion of teeth, tooth
  • Abnormal tooth color, teeth
  • Cavities of teeth, tooth pitting
  • Grinding teeth, bruxism, odontoprisis
  • Cracked tooth, fractured teeth
  • Tongue weakness, paresis, paralysis
  • Tongue ulcers, vesicles, erosions, sores, blisters, cuts, tears
  • Tongue protrusion
  • Erythema, redness of pharynx
  • Pharyngeal ulcers, vesicles, erosion, papules, sores pharynx
  • Dysphagia, difficulty swallowing
  • Esophageal obstruction
  • Increased frequency of swallowing
  • Vomiting or regurgitation, emesis
  • Hematemesis, vomiting blood
  • Gagging
  • Increased rate or strength rumen motility, hypermotility
  • Rumen hypomotility or atony, decreased rate, motility, strength
  • Abdominal distention
  • Ascites, fluid abdomen
  • Bloat in ruminants, tympany
  • Ping left side, auscultable gas filled viscus
  • Ping right side, auscultable gas filled viscus
  • Bilateral ping, auscultable gas filled viscus both sides
  • Increased borborygmi, gut sounds
  • Decreased borborygmi, gut sounds, ileus
  • Decreased amount of stools, absent feces, constipation
  • Diarrhea
  • Abnormal color of stool in birds, white, green, yellow feces
  • Steatorrhea, fatty stools, feces
  • Dark color stools, feces
  • Mucous, mucoid stools, feces
  • Melena or occult blood in feces, stools
  • Bloody stools, feces, hematochezia
  • Unusual or foul odor, stools, feces
  • Fecal incontinence
  • Flatulence
  • Anal, rectal stricture
  • Hepatosplenomegaly, splenomegaly, hepatomegaly
  • Prolapsed rectum, rectal eversion
  • Palpable dilated bowel internal paplation
  • Sunken, empty crop in birds

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