Reptile Part 5
Across
- 6. Oral infection also known as mouth rot
- 8. Egg‑laying process that may fail in dystocia
- 9. Dietary mineral that interferes with calcium balance when excessive
- 10. Organisms such as mites, worms, or ticks causing disease
- 13. Loss of limb function seen in advanced metabolic bone disease
- 15. Tissue death that may follow retained shed
- 17. Fatal inflammation resulting from ruptured retained eggs
- 22. (2 words) Infection of the shell involving loss of scutes
- 23. Open skin lesion seen in infectious conditions
- 25. Localized pocket of infection containing solid pus in reptiles
- 29. Collective term for reptiles and amphibians
- 30. Essential mineral depleted in metabolic bone disease
- 33. Abnormal or improper shedding of reptile skin
- 35. Surgical removal of damaged tissue from a wound
- 36. Metabolic bone disease commonly caused by calcium imbalance
Down
- 1. (2 words) Nitrogenous waste that accumulates in reptile gout
- 2. Disease transmissible from reptiles to humans
- 3. Labored or difficult breathing
- 4. Deposition of uric acid crystals in joints and organs
- 5. Common term for infectious stomatitis
- 7. Physical injury such as burns or bite wounds in reptiles
- 9. Respiratory disease with dyspnea and nasal discharge
- 11. Zoonotic bacteria commonly carried by reptiles
- 12. Excess body fat common in captive snakes
- 14. One of a pair of male copulatory organs in snakes and lizards
- 16. Protrusion of cloacal or reproductive tissues through the vent
- 18. Bony plates making up the shell surface of chelonians
- 19. Hormonal disorder associated with chronic calcium deficiency
- 20. Common exit for digestive and urogenital systems
- 21. Generalized weakness seen in many reptile diseases
- 22. Abscess occurring beneath the retained spectacle of the eye
- 23. Environmental requirement that enables vitamin D synthesis
- 24. Egg binding condition in female reptiles
- 26. Skin disease involving abscesses, blisters, or discoloration
- 27. Transparent fused eyelid of snakes and some lizards
- 28. Return of recently ingested food
- 31. Prolapse of a hemipenis in male reptiles
- 32. (2 words 1 number) Required vitamin for calcium absorption from the GI tract
- 34. Severe ulcerative form of shell rot in aquatic turtles