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- Dictionaryswine/swʌɪn/
noun
- 1. a pig: archaic "a contagious viral disease of animals that primarily affects swine"
- 2. a contemptible or unpleasant person: informal, derogatory "what an arrogant, unfeeling swine!"
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3 days ago · Pig, wild or domestic swine, a mammal of the Suidae family. Pigs are stout-bodied, short-legged, omnivorous mammals, with thick skin usually sparsely coated with short bristles. Their hooves have two functional and two nonfunctional digits.
5 days ago · cattle, domesticated bovine farm animals that are raised for their meat, milk, or hides or for draft purposes. The animals most often included under the term are the Western or European domesticated cattle as well as the Indian and African domesticated cattle.
5 days ago · meat, the flesh or other edible parts of animals (usually domesticated cattle, swine, and sheep) used for food, including not only the muscles and fat but also the tendons and ligaments. Meat is valued as a complete protein food containing all the amino acids necessary for the human body.
1 day ago · Lung lesion evaluation is, by far, the information most frequently collected, basically to confirm and quantify respiratory problems, as well as to assess the outcome of certain intervention strategies. The two most prevalent pulmonary lesions observed at the pig slaughterhouse are: Pleuritis, mainly in caudal lobes.
1 day ago · Background Within the last decades industrial swine herds in Europe grown significantly, creating an optimized reservoir for swine influenza A viruses (swIAV) to become enzootic, particularly in piglet producing herds among newborn, partly immunologically naïve piglets. To date, the only specific control measure to protect piglets from swIAV is the vaccination of sows, which provides passive ...
3 days ago · The property of swine species of serving as an actual or potential reservoir and / or recombination vessel for many zoonotic viral diseases, along with the proximity and interaction with wildlife in many regions should not be overlooked, since it can be considered to constitute one of the main and constant public health concerns and threats.
1 day ago · Porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) is a swine enteric viral disease first documented in the United States (U.S.) swine population in 2013, at which time it sparked a major epidemic . The clinical presentation involves high morbidity and mortality in suckling piglets with diarrhea being the main clinical sign [2, 3].
