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Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
Gastrointestinal tract Gastrointestinal tract

VetBooks.ir

Anorexia

No interest in food Interest in food
(inappetence)

Sense of smell Sense of smell Difficulties to eat Pain while eating Psychogenic
present not present

Mastication Swallowing – Ulcerated – Diet change
Gastro-
Systemic CNS disorder disorder mucous – New
Pain intestinal CNS disease Nasal disease
disease disease membranes companion
disease – Dental disease animal
– Neck lesions – New
– Dislocated jaw Mechanical Neurological (cats) en ironment
v
– Dental disease obstraction disorder
– Masticatory
muscle myositis
– Lesion of the
trigeminal nerve – Foreign body – Cricopha-
– Space-occupying – Swelling ryngeal
lesion (e.g. – Neoplasia achalasia
neoplasia, – Rabies
abscess) – Tetanus

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