Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases > Nutrition Disorders > Malnutrition > Deficiency Diseases > Swayback
Animal Diseases > Sheep Diseases > Swayback

Preferred term

Swayback  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Ataxia, Enzootic
  • Ataxias, Enzootic
  • Enzootic Ataxia
  • Enzootic Ataxias

Note

  • animal only: disease of sheep; check tag ANIMAL; don't forget also SHEEP (NIM) but do not index under SHEEP DISEASES

Scope note

  • Congenital locomotor ataxia of lambs, thought to be associated with copper deficiency. It is characterized clinically by progressive incoordination of the hind limbs and pathologically by disruption of neuron and myelin development in the central nervous system. It is caused by a deficiency of metabolizable copper in the ewe during the last half of her pregnancy. (Dorland, 28th ed; Stedman, 26th ed)

History note

  • 91(68); was see under SHEEP DISEASES 1968-90

In other languages

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013540

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 1/1/99, last modified 7/9/03