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Advanced study of the type animal species in relation or comparison of other mammalian or vertebrate types: man; primates; examination of skeletal remains; dating of fossil; sex determination and other osteometric methods

Advanced Developmental Anatomy and Teratology lectures and practicals in introductory and general embryology including sex determination; cleavage gastrulation and mechanisms of development; Role of organisms - organogenesis and development of various systems - mechanism of congenital abnormalities and general principles of action of teratogens

Detailed discussion of normal radiographic; ultrasonographic and C-T scan of body organs in small animals; sub-human primates and small ruminants; Radiographic evaluation of large animal extremities; Laboratory exercises in production of diagnostic radiographs and ultrasonographic pictures; Evaluation of normal and pathologic images

Study of different techniques employed in the diagnosis of diseases using specific instrumentation for general clinical examination; clinics and pathological diagnosis; treatment and control of some specific diseases affecting various systems of domestic and wild animals; Clinico-diagnostic study of cases as well as chemotherapeutic approach to cases

Clinical and laboratory procedures employed in the Diagnosis of poisons; Emphasis will be on observed signs; sample collection; types and quantity of samples to be collected; storage of samples; post-mortem findings; and histopathological examination of tissues and chemical analysis for presence to poisons

Concepts in epizootiology; sampling methods and requirements for the detection and identification of microbial agents; descriptive epizootiology; analytical and observational epizootiology; field investigations of epizootic; enzootic; pandemic and sporadic diseases including prevention and eradication; Planning and implementation of epizootiological projects; strategies for disease control and eradication in a population; risk analysis

Introduction; aetiology; symptoms; transmission; diagnosis; treatment and control of bacterial; parasitic; viral; rickettsial and mycotic diseases of equine species; Diseases caused by nutritional deficiency; Special problems of equine species such as lameness; fracture; etc; Clinical diagnosis and clinicopathological study of economically important diseases of equine in the tropics

Review of pharmacology of drugs affecting the gastro-intestinal system - including purgatives; anti-diarrhoeals; emetics and antemetics; sialics and anti-sialics; protectives; and ruminant digestive pharmacology

An in-depth course dealing with bone marrow function; and evaluation; erythrocyte; leucocyte; and platelet structure; function and pathology; Anaemia; pigment and iron metabolism; normal and defective blood coagulation

An indepth study of the microscopic and ultrastructural morphology of tissues and organs; emphasizing mainly the relationship between structure and function; Systemic histology of domestic species and laboratory animals as applicable to the student's problem; Covers circulatory; digestive; respiratory; urinary and reproductive systems and integumentary and special senses