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grass

plant members of the family Poaceae (Gramineae).

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grass chinkerinchee

ornithogalumornithogaloides.

grass disease

see grass sickness.

eating grass

is commonly seen in dogs and cats, sometimes associated with gastrointestinal disease, but more often an innocuous habit. May be a cause or a means of easy vomiting when the stomach is empty.

elephant grass

see pennisetumpurpureum.

grass founder

laminitis.

grass nematode

see anguina lolii.

grass pea

lathyrussativus.

grass seed abscess

a common lesion in cattle in summer when grazing dry, native grasses with serrated awns. Lesions occur on the sides of the face and in the parotid area. They are cold abscesses, slow-growing, firm, painless and without heat. They rarely rupture and cause little inconvenience. Their importance is the need to differentiate them from actinomycosis of the jaw.

grass seed awns

see awn.

grass seed nematode poisoning

see anguina lolii.

grass sickness

a dysautonomia of horses; a noninfectious disease of unknown etiology characterized by drooling of saliva from the nostrils, alimentary tract stasis, small hard feces and severe mental depression. The outcome is always fatal. There is a diagnostic degenerative lesion in the sympathetic ganglia.

grass staggers

see lactation tetany (2).

grass tetany

see lactation tetany (2).

grass vetchling

lathyrusnissolia.

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