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The area of skin supplied with afferent nerve fibers by a single dorsal spinal root.

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afferent ; dorsal ; nerve ; nerve root

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine; the standard software format used to process, store, print, and transmit (and exchange) medical imaging information.

The "relay center" of the brain where all information passes into and out of the cerebral cortex.  The caudal part of the forebrain (comprised of the hypothalamus, thalamus, metathalamus, subthalamus and epithalamus) and the rostral portion of the brainstem.

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brain ; brainstem ; caudal ; cerebral cortex ; forebrain ; hypothalamus ; rostral ; subthalamus ; thalamus

An abnormal condition which impairs bodily function.

See intervertebral disk.

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Infection of intervertebral disk and the adjacent bone of the vertebral body.

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infection ; intervertebral disk ; vertebra

Away from the point of attachment or origin.

Disease of dogs characterized by degeneration of the distal axons of peripheral nerves.

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axon ; degeneration ; disease ; distal ; nerve ; peripheral nervous system (PNS)

A specific infectious respiratory and sometimes gastrointestinal and neurologic disease of dogs caused by the canine distemper virus; characterized by fever, dullness, loss of appetite, and a discharge from the eyes and nose as well as central nervous system problems such as seizures, vestibular signs, etc.

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central nervous system (CNS) ; infection ; seizure ; vestibular disease ; virus