Salmon (redirected from Pacific Salmon)

Salmon

Relating to mucocutaneous lesions with a ‘salmon’ colour

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salmon

farmed finfish; many species in the genera Salmo and Oncorhyncus.

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salmon louse

Lepeophtherius salmonis.

salmon poisoning, salmon disease

a disease of dogs and other canids which eat salmon from streams in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, and caused by neorickettsia helminthoeca. The infection is transmitted by the fluke, Nanophyetus salmincola, parasitic in the salmon. The disease in dogs is characterized by fever, ocular discharge and edema of the eyelids, followed by vomiting, then diarrhea and later severe dysentery and death in untreated cases. See also elokomin fluke fever.