| 1 of 107 | COMPULSIVE ROLLING - Serious disturbance of postural reflexes characterized by excessive wallowing on the ground and difficulty or inability to stand up. Compulsive rolling is an indicator of brain damage. C03717. |
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| 2 | CONCILIATORY BEHAVIOR - Behavior directed toward other organisms that tends to promote favorable social relationships. Subordination signals, greeting signals, and appeasement signals are the most common displays of greeting signals, and appeasement signals are the most common displays of conciliatory behavior. C03805. |
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| 3 | CONFLICT - A psychological state which occurs when an animal is simultaneously motivated to manifest two or more mutually incompatible responses (e.g., approach-approach conflict, when the organism has to make a choice between two or more attractive stimuli; approach-avoidance conflict when the organism is in a situation where attraction and aversion are inseparably linked with the stimulus; avoidance-avoidance conflict, when the organism has to make a choice between two or more aversive stimuli). Compromise or displacement behavior may occur when the conflicting motivations are equal in strength. C03906. |
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| 4 | CONGENITAL - Acquired during development prior to birth or hatching. C03908. |
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| 5 | CONNATE - Appearing at birth or shortly thereafter C03910. |
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| 6 | CONSPECIFIC - Pertaining to individuals belonging to the same species. C04004. |
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| 7 | CONSUMMATORY ACT - An act by which an organism satisfies its interests. C04007. |
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| 8 | CONSUMMATORY BEHAVIOR - Behavior consisting of consummatory responses manifested during the consummatory phase of an operant behavioral cycle. C04008. |
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| 9 | CONTACTUAL BEHAVIOR - Behavior characterized by bodily contact. C04014. |
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| 10 | CONTAGIOUS BEHAVIOR - See Allelomimetic Behavior. C04015. |
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| 11 | CONVULSION - Violent muscular contractions affecting all or part of the body. Convulsions may be a symptom of encephalomyelitis, brain edema, tumor, epilepsy, lesion, or parasitic injury to the nervous system, or may be associated with hysteria, high fever, or parturition. C04108. |
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| 12 | COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR - Behavior by which two or more organisms work together to achieve a goal (e.g., coordination of behavior during mating, territorial defense, or feeding of offspring). C04111. |
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| 13 | COPULATION - See Coitus. C04116. |
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| 14 | COPULATION, FORCED - See Forced Copulation. C04117. |
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| 15 | COPULATORY BEHAVIOR - Behavioral actions directly involved in copulation. These include cooperative posture of a female and mounting, intromission, thrusting, ejaculation and dismounting of a male. Copulatory behavior is preceded by precopulatory behavior (e.g., search for sexual partner, courtship) and followed by postcopulatory behavior (e.g., grooming,
resting,etc.). C04118. |
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| 16 | CORNERING - A behavioral phenomenon in which an organism cannot escape a threatening adversary without instigating an attack on the adversary. C04202. |
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| 17 | COSSET - A lamb raised without its dam. C04212. |
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| 18 | CORNEAL REFLEX - Rapid closure of the eyelids when the cornea is irritated. Also called blink reflex or lid reflex. C04201. |
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| 19 | COUGH REFLEX - A reflex mediated by the medulla oblongata through the vagus nerve, instigated by the presence of obstructing matter in, or irritation of, the respiratory pathways. Coughing is performed as one or several relatively powerful bursts of air expelled from the respiratory tract to remove the obstruction or alleviate the irritation. Repeated coughing when not engaged in eating may be an indication of respiratory disease. C04303. |
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| 20 | COUNTER CANTER (horse) - The counter canter occurs when the horse takes a right curve with the left foreleg being the leading leg, or vice versa. Compare: Canter. C04304. |
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| 21 | COUPLING (swine) - A term referring to mating in swine. C04306. |
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| 22 | COURBETTE (horse) - A dressage exercise of the Spanish High Riding School in which the horse makes several forward leaps in the Pessage posture. C04307. |
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| 23 | COURTSHIP - Specialized behavior patterns that occur as preliminaries to mating and contribute to the psychophysiological synchronization of breeding partners C04308. |
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| 24 | COURTSHIP GRUNTS (swine) - Low frequency rhythmical sounds produced by mature boars when exposed to gilts or sows. Synonym:
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| 2525 | COVERING - Mating in horses. (colloquial term) C04311. |
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| 26 | COW - A bovine female after delivery of her first calf. C04312. |
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| 27 | COYNESS - A ritualized short distance fight of females manifested as Part of precopulatory displays and which generally stimulates a following response by males. C04313. |
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| 28 | CRATE - A housing compartment that permits lying down and standing up but prevents the animal from turning around or leaving the crate. As a housing system, crates presently are used mainly in swine production units during overlying of piglets (farrowing crates). Crates are also used to house veal calves (veal crate), and for examination, weighing, and transportation of animals. C04402. |
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| 29 | CRECHE - An aggregation of juvenile animals, typically birds, that have left their parental nests and band together. C04405. |
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| 30 | CRIBBING - Frequent biting on boards, pipes, and other structural materials used for confinement of animals, assumed to be indicative of boredom, pain, or nutritional deficiency. In horses, the term cribbing also refers to swallowing of air through the open mouth when biting on an object (also called crib biting or wind sucking). C04410. |
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| 31 | CROSS-FIRING (horse) - Defective leg action occurring in pacers when the hoof of the hind-leg hits the fore-leg on the opposite side of the body C04503. |
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| 32 | CROSS-SUCKING - Sucking performed by young, preweaned mammals but directed towards the mammary of lactating female other than their own dam. C04505. |
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| 33 | CROUCHING - Lowering of the body by bending the legs. C04506. |
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| 34 | CROUCH, SEXUAL - See Sexual Crouch. C04507. |
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| 35 | CROUPADE (horse) - A dressage exercise of the Spanish High Riding School Performed as a vertical leap from the Pessage position. While off the ground, the horse folds its forelegs and draws up its hind legs before landing simultaneously on all fours at the same spot from which it leaped. C04508. |
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| 36 | CROUP PRESENTATION - Fetal presentation when the posterior Part of the body enters the birth canal while all legs are folded below the body of the fetus. C04509. |
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| 37 | CROWDING - An unusually high spatial density of animals which may cause discomfort to some or all animals in the group, but not serious deprivation or injury. Reduced individual distance zones, for the most Part, still can he maintained, and all animals are able to rest at the same rime, stand up and lie down freely, extend their limbs without interference, and have adequate opportunity for eating and drinking. Compare: Overcrowding. C04510. |
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| 38 | CROWING (chicken) - A type of vocalization produced by males which has frequency oscillations of relatively wide amplitude, distinct breaks and a duration of approximately two seconds. It is assumed that crowing has a territorial and sexual function, and its frequency of occurrence bears a positive relation to social status in the flock. Crowing commences after six weeks of age. C04512. |
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| 39 | CRURAL - Pertaining to the leg or thigh C04513. |
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| 40 | CRYPTIC BEHAVIOR - Any behavior that appears to be performed for the purpose of minimizing conspicuousness of an organism. C04514. |
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| 41 | CRYPTORCHID - A male whose testes fail to descend into the scrotum. C04516. |
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| 42 | CUD - A bolus of regurgitated feed to be remasticated and swallowed again. C04517. |
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| 43 | CUD-DROPPING - Tendency to drop regurgitated feed from the mouth. Cud-dropping is one of the behavioral symptoms of pharyngeal paralysis. C04519. |
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| 44 | CURIOSITY - A tendency to approach and investigate novel stimuli or situations and become familiar with their attributes or implications. C04603. |
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| 45 | CURLED TONGUE (turkey) - Deformity of the tongue in young poults that causes feeding difficulties C04604. |
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| 46 | CYCLICAL NURSING - Nursing conducted at a regular time interval. C04608. |
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| 47 | DAM - The female parent. D04610. |
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| 48 | DEBEAKING (poultry) - Beak trimming (colloquial term) D04706. |
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| 49 | DECLAWING - Surgical removal of claws from the feet of birds, cats, and dogs, to prevent scratching and injuring others. D04710. |
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| 50 | DEFECATION - Elimination of feces from the body. During defecation, healthy animals raise the tail head and may also move the tail slightly to one side. Horses, cattle, sheep and goats may defecate in a stationary position or while walking. Swine normally remain stationary and tend to deposit feces ill specific areas of a pen, such as in a comer, in a place where feces already have been deposited or in wet areas. D04715. |
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| 51 | DEFENSIVE AGGRESSION - Aggression by a victim or potential victim directed toward an instigator or perceived instigator of an aggressive interaction. Defensive aggression characteristically is manifested to prevent or reduce some annoyance or loss . D04717. |
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| 52 | DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR - Behavior performed to prevent or neutralize a real or perceived aversive stimulus. According to the circumstances, such behavior may encompass aggression, avoidance, or signs of appeasement and subordination. D04801. |
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| 53 | DEHORNING - Surgical removal of horns or any treatment which prevents the development of horns in farm animals. D04809. |
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| 54 | DEPRESSION - In a behavioral sense, a state of severe emotional dejection characterized by various behavioral disorders. Also see specific depressions - AGITATED; ENZOOTIC; STUPOROUS. D04910. |
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| 55 | DESIRE - Motivation of an organism to acquire, control, or experience some feature of its environment (e.g., water, feed, space, social contact, escape from aversive stimuli, etc.). Desires are interpreted operationally from observed behavior and may, in turn, be indications of underlying needs. Compare: Need. D04913. |
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| 56 | DESNOODING (turkey) - Surgical removal of the snood in neonatal poults. Such a treatment is performed to reduce subsequent incidence of cannibalism. D04914. |
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| 57 | DETRACTION - In a strict behavioral sense, lowering attention or concentration without shifting the point of focus. D05005. |
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| 58 | DEWATTLING (poultry) - Surgical removal of a fowl's wattles. D05007. |
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| 59 | DEXTRAL - Pertaining to the right side of the body. Antonym: Sinistral. D05008. |
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| 60 | DIAGONAL GAIT - A gait in which the diagonal legs move at the same time (e.g., trot). D05010. |
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| 61 | DIESTRUS - A relatively short period of sexual inactivity between two estrus cycles in polyestrous animals. D05015. |
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| 62 | DIGGING - See Excavation. D05101. |
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| 63 | DIRECT REFLEX - A type of reflex in which the receptor and effector are Located on the same side of the body. D05112. |
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| 64 | DISHING (horse) - Defective leg action when the leg is thrown inward during the extension phase D05207. |
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| 65 | DISINHIBITION - Reoccurrence of suppressed response to the original eliciting stimulus due to motivational interference of another, previously irrelevant stimulus. D05209. |
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| 66 | DISPLACEMENT - Behavior that is seemingly irrelevant to the situation being to perform actions appropriate to the circumstances, or when it apparently to perform actions appropriate to the circumstances, or when it apparently experiences conflict among motivations for different actions. It is also postulated that displacement involves motivational disinhibition. D05214. |
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| 67 | DISPLAY - See specific display - BEHAVIORAL; CONFLICT THEORY OF; DIVERSIONARY D05215. |
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| 68 | DISTAL - Remote or farther from a point of reference. In an anatomical sense, the point of reference might be the central part of an animal's body Antonym: Proximal. D05302. |
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| 69 | DISTRESS - An emotional state of an organism resulting from excessive fear, loss of companion or object with which it has a strong psychological bond, physical discomfort, food or water deprivation, pain etc. Compare: Suffering. D05310. |
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| 70 | DISUNITED CANTER (horse) - A three-beat gait which differs from the normal canter in the second beat when the movement of the legs is synchronized laterally rather than diagonally. Compare: Canter. D05315. |
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| 71 | DIURESIS - Increased formation of urine. D05316. |
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| 72 | DOCILE - Obedient or submissive. D05406. |
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| 73 | DOCKING - Partial or complete amputation of the tail. D05407. |
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| 74 | DOE - A female goat, deer, or rabbit after delivery of its first offspring. D05409. |
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| 75 | DOG-SITTING POSITION - Resting on the caudal part of the body observed in pigs, cattle, and horses. It is often, but not always, indicative of disease (e.g., partial paralysis due to a vitamin or mineral deficiency, abdominal pain, etc.). D05411. |
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| 76 | DOG-SITTING PRESENTATION - Fetal presentation when all four limbs and the nose enter the birth canal concurrently. D05412. |
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| 77 | DOMINANCE - See Social Dominance. D05417. |
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| 78 | DOMINANT ACTIVITY - A behavioral action which in motivational competition superimposes alternative action. The dominant action controls the expression of these alternative actions through inhibition or disinhibition. D05505. |
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| 79 | DORSAL - Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the dorsum (back) of an organ. D05508. |
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| 80 | DORSIFLEXION - Bending upward toward the dorsum (or forward in leg motion). D05510. |
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| 81 | DRAKE - A sexually mature male duck. D05601. |
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| 82 | DRESSAGE (horse) - A set of standardized exercises developed through a training program which stresses locomotory coordination of the horse, as well harmony between horse and rider. Also see Piaffe; Pirouette; Travers. D05604. |
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| 83 | DRINKING - Voluntary oral ingestion of liquids. D05607. |
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| 84 | DROP, LEG - See Leg Drop. D05610. |
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| 85 | DROPPED ELBOW - Radial paralysis. (colloquial term) D05611. |
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| 86 | DROWSING - Being in a somnolent state characterized by reduced attention, eye closure, muscular relaxation, and immobility. D05612. |
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| 87 | DRUMMING - A rapid series of repeated nonvocal sounds. Geese may produce such sounds by vigorous flapping of the wings. D05613. |
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| 88 | DUBBING (poultry) - Trimming of the comb. Such a treatment is performed, generally on neonatal birds, to reduce subsequent incidence of cannibalism and comb injuries. D05617. |
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| 89 | DUCK - A mature female duck. D05618. |
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| 90 | DUCKLING - A young duck D05619. |
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| 91 | DUMMY SYNDROME - A clinical term occasionally used to refer to decreased or diminished awareness of an obstruction in the path of movement. D05621. |
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| 92 | DUST-BATHING (chicken) - A behavior pattern that is a component of integumentary care characterized by lying on the side and making a small depression in the floor surface while head rubbing, bill raking, wing shaking, and scratching on the floor. During dust bathing, birds throw particles of floor material over their bodies and the surrounding area. The dust bathing event ends with ruffling and preening. Synonym: Sand bathing, Litter bathing. Also see specific dust bathing - SHAM. D05622. |
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| 93 | EAR BITING - Biting or chewing on the ears of other animals. It occurs most frequently in early-weaned, trough- or bucket-fed young mammals, particularly calves and piglets. Ear biting can be substantially reduced if the young animals are fed through artificial nipples. Ear biting may lead to serious injury of the victim's ear(s). E05711. |
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| 94 | EAR FLAPPING - Rapid rotatory oscillation of the head causing the ears to flap and strike against the face. Ear flapping is relatively common in swine, and it is conjectured to be a display of mild excitement, a threat signal, or a response to irritation of the ear caused by parasites or specific sounds. E05802. |
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| 95 | EAR FLICKING - Quick, light movements of one or both ears. E05803. |
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| 96 | EARS, RETRACTED (horse) - See Retracted Ears. E05805. |
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| 97 | EAR SUCKING - Sucking of the ears of littermates or conspecifics. Ear sucking occurs frequently in early-weaned, trough- or bucket-fed piglets or calves, or piglets of hypogalactic dams. It may cause lesions of the ear and in crowded pens may lead to serious abscesses. E05806. |
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| 98 | EATING - Voluntary oral ingestion of solids and semi-solids. E05807. |
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| 99 | EATING, EGG - See Egg Eating. E05808. |
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| 100 | ECHOPRAXIA - Imitation of the movement of another organism. E05811. |
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| 101 | EGG BEATER (horse) - A horse having very light and coordinated leg action. (colloquial term) E05903. |
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| 102 | EGG EATING (poultry) - A vice characterized by penetration of the egg shell by pecking and partial consumption of the egg content. E05904. |
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| 103 | EGG LAYING (poultry) - See Oviposition. E05905. |
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| 104 | EGG ROLLING (poultry) - Retrieval of eggs to the nest or periodic movement of incubating eggs in the nest by breeding birds. E05906. |
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| 105 | EJACULATION - A sudden discharge, commonly referring to the expulsion of semen during male orgasm. Also see specific ejaculation - PREMATURE. E05909. |
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| 106 | ELBOW, DROPPED - See Dropped Elbow. E05914. |
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| 107 | ELECTROEJACULATION - Any ejaculation artificially induced by electrical stimulation. Electroejaculation is occasionally used for the purpose of semen collection. E05916. |
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