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capture myopathy
noun
An often fatal stress-induced myopathy affecting captured wild animals.
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Something else vets know, and doctors ought to, concerns the phenomenon of capture myopathy.
It's called "capture myopathy".
Animals who are most prone to capture myopathy are small mammals, ungulates, birds, and anxious primates.
After consulting with veterinarians at the Los Angeles Zoo, it was Natterson-Horowitz, a UCLA cardiology professor, who put the heart-related aspects of capture myopathy with takotsubo cardiomyopathy side by side.
Hares can either die due to injuries sustained by contact with the much larger dogs or due to capture myopathy.
Mortality due to capture myopathy has not been reported with the etorphine protocol used in Norway.
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But few of them have actual myopathy.
Marks P, Anderson J, Vincent R. Thyrotoxic myopathy presenting as dysphagia.
Involvement of bulbar muscles in thyrotoxic myopathy.
Nemaline myopathy (NM) constitutes a heterogeneous group of congenital myopathies.
Sam, who like his brother has neuromuscular myopathy, reciprocated.
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