veterinary medicine
Treating sick pets
Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine concerned with the health of animals—diagnosing and treating disease, performing surgery, and preventing illness through vaccination and other care.
The field covers everything from household pets to livestock to zoo animals.
A practitioner is a veterinarian or vet: She studied veterinary medicine at Cornell.
- exotic petsUncommon domesticated animals
- disease preventionMeasures blocking illness onset
- parasitologyStudy of organisms exploiting others
- necropsyAnimal postmortem examination
- livestockDomesticated farm animals
large animal · animal welfare · immunology · pathology · biosecurity · animal health · infection · treatment · white coat · rabies · aquaculture · vaccination programs · diagnosis · animal · kennel · paws · muzzle · leash
- Biomedicineanatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, immunology
- career fieldsnursing, engineering, business, finance, accounting
- veterinary medicinepet hospitals, animal clinics, small animal vet, vet schools, necropsy
- UC DavisAggies, Arboretum, mustard yellow, viticulture, enology
- Scoutingbadges, scout, Boy Scouts, campfires, scouts
- universitiesuniversities, Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge
veterinary medicinemedicine
Curative substance or practice
medical practice · clinical medicine · healthcare · pediatrics · family medicine
veterinary medicineanimal cruelty
Mistreatment of beasts
animal abuse · animal neglect · factory farming · vivisection · poaching
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