ABSTRACT: Cetacean populations in the Strait of Gibraltar are heavily impacted by human activities. Photographs a valuable tool to monitor external health cetaceans. We visually screened 27,866 pictures taken during whale watching operations years 2016–2020 for abnormal conditions, such as emaciation, dermal diseases and epizoic infestations. Prevalence levels could not be calculated data were ...

In a series of environmentally realistic laboratory experiments, toxicokinetics and effects of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were studied in the Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus). Winter fasting and emaciation, which are common among Arctic charr living in high latitudes, resulted in a redistribution of the lipophilic PCBs from lipid-storing tissue such as the muscle, to vital organs that mu...

some general remarks 011 the emaciation of the patieuts. 86 per cent, of the men and 83 per cent, of the women had wasted till they were barely two-thirds of their normal weight. When emaciation has reached this degree, life is held by a slender thread which the least untoward circumstance is sufficient to snap. Besides the wasting of the muscular tissues, the organs of the body, especially the...

BACKGROUND Marmosets and tamarins are increasingly used in research, but their pathology remains poorly defined compared with Old World primates. METHODS Necropsy records of 129 marmosets and 52 tamarins were reviewed; none was used experimentally. RESULTS The most common marmoset lesions were dehydration, emaciation, nephritis, colitis, and inanition. The most common tamarin lesions were d...

According to most authors, the signs of polyneuritis in pigeons and hens are following disorders: loss appetite, emaciation, limb paralysis convulsions neck muscles, resulting characteristic tilting back head occurring 1-3 days before death appearing as seizures from 5 10 times a day, especially at external stimulation.

Extreme emaciation accompanied by a melancholic psychosis is sometimes seen in women at or, more frequently, after the menopause. A number of such cases have been investigated and treated at the Bristol Mental Hospital, so that it is possible to describe this form of Involutional Melancholia as a clinical entity (Hemphill and Reiss, 1940 and 1942). Physically there is gross emaciation with loss...

BACKGROUND There is concern that the body size of fashion store mannequins are too thin and promote unrealistic body ideals. To date there has been no systematic examination of the size of high street fashion store mannequins. METHODS We surveyed national fashion retailers located on the high street of two English cities. The body size of 'male' and 'female' mannequins was assessed by two bli...

Sir,?With reference to the letter of Babu Akshoy Chandra Dey, i,.m.p., in the Indian Medical Gazette of August last, regarding flying intestinal " worms," I wish to say that about IS years ago I came across a number of such cases, in a village in the district of Khulna, Bengal. The insects resembled those found in local mangoes and they used to fly immediately upon their expulsion from the inte...