The objective was to quantify the strength of the relationship between body condition score (BCS) and live weight (LW) in pasture-based Holstein-Friesian dairy cattle, and to determine the kg LW per unit BCS. A total of 26021 test-day records with information on both BCS (1-10 scale, where 1 is emaciated and 10 is obese) and LW across 1110 lactations from one research farm were used in the anal...

(1) On the macroscopical alterations in the tissues of guinea-pigs which had been fed exclusively on bread, groats, and unpeeled grain. BY experimenting with the " one-sided " diets which were used in the experiments, mentioned in the foregoing paper on polyneuritis in poultry, we found that guinea-pigs also contract a disease, and that this disease is accompanied by very characteristic changes...

BACKGROUND Patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) usually report feeling larger than they really are. This body overestimation appears to be related not only to the patient's body image but also to an abnormal representation of the body in action. In previous work on a body-scaled anticipation task, anorexic patients judged that they could not pass through a door-like aperture even when it was eas...

Naza, Mahomedan male, aged about 50 years, was admitted to this hospital on the 28th September, 1926, complaining" of severe pain on micturition, and at the time of admission of complete retention of urine. He was very weak and emaciated and had threatening signs of uraemia. He gave a history of gleet, and organic stricture of the urethra was also present. On examination it was found that the b...

We compared the growth of children with cri du chat (5p-) syndrome with the 1990 UK growth curves. Most subjects had impaired growth, particularly of head circumference. The more emaciated the child the more pronounced the microcephaly, showing the need for growth and nutrition monitoring.

hydronephrosis occurs as a congenital or an acquired condition following obstruction of the urinary tract. in this study, a four month old male holstein calf with emaciation, growth retardation and a poor dry scruffy hair coat was examined because of remarkable distention of right abdomen. at necropsy, right kidney was hydronephrotic as a very big fluid-filled round pelvis with the presence of ...

on the 22nd of February last, Surgeon-Major J. H. Porter of Netley read a paper on the above subject, and illustrated it by a case in which amputation of the thigh, through the condyles, was followed by recurring secondary haemorrhage, each flow being preceded by hot and cold stages. Tlie man had been invalided from India in April 1875, " when he was very weak, anaemic and emaciated," and subse...

use of spirituous liquor. About three months ago he had an attack of low remittent fever, which continued with more or less severity up to the time of admission. Three days after the attack of fever he had pain in the region of the liver, which had continued ever since. On admission he looked much emaciated, and his pulse was weak and quick. Bowels confined, but the tongue was clear j skin slig...

Over the last decades, health indicators have witnessed major improvements in the Sultanate of Oman. This study was aimed at factors associated with underweight among children in four regions of Oman, as, in 1998, underweight was prevalent among 17.9% of children aged less than five years. A case-control study was conducted in 2002: 190 cases were 6-35-month old children with weight-for-age < -...

In November 1993, unusual mortality occurred among endangered Laysan ducks on Laysan Island, one of the remote refugia of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge (USA). Ten live ducks were emaciated, and blood samples documented anemia, heterophilia, and eosinophilia. Pathology in 13 duck carcasses revealed emaciation, marked thickening of the proventricular wall, abundant mu...