 A small boy biting an older boy. A bite is a wound received from the mouth (and in particular, the teeth) of an animal or person. Animals may bite in self-defense, or in an attempt to predate food. Other bite attacks may be apparently unprovoked, especially in the case of bites committed by psychologically or emotionally disturbed humans. Some disorders such as Lesch-Nyhan syndrome may cause people to bite themselves. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 343 KB) Summary Go ahead and use this picture, but dont say you took this picture yourself. ...
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Superficial bullet wounds A wound is type of physical trauma wherein the skin is torn, cut or punctured (an open wound), or where blunt force trauma causes a contusion (a closed wound). ...
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Types of teeth Molars are used for grinding up foods Carnassials are used for slicing food. ...
Phyla Subregnum Parazoa Porifera (sponges) Subregnum Agnotozoa Placozoa (trichoplax) Orthonectida (orthonectids) Rhombozoa (dicyemids) Subregnum Eumetazoa Radiata (unranked) (radial symmetry) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anemones) Bilateria (unranked) (bilateral symmetry) Acoelomorpha (basal) Myxozoa (slime animals) Superphylum Deuterostomia (blastopore becomes anus) Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ...
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LNS) is a rare, inherited disorder caused by a deficiency of the enzyme hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT). ...
Bite wounds raise a number of medical concerns for the physician or first aider including: See drugs, medication, and pharmacology for substances that are used to treat patients. ...
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First aid is a series of simple, life-saving medical techniques that a non-doctor or layman can be trained to perform. ...
- Generalized tissue damage due to tearing and scratching.
- Serious hemorrhage if major blood vessels are pierced.
- Infection by bacteria or other pathogens, including rabies.
- Introduction of venom into the wound by venomous animals such as some snakes.
- Introduction of other irritants into the wound, causing inflammation and itching.
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An infection is the detrimental colonization of a host organism by a foreign species. ...
Phyla/Divisions Actinobacteria Aquificae Bacteroidetes/Chlorobi Chlamydiae/Verrucomicrobia Chloroflexi Chrysiogenetes Cyanobacteria Deferribacteres Deinococcus-Thermus Dictyoglomi Fibrobacteres/Acidobacteria Firmicutes Fusobacteria Gemmatimonadetes Nitrospirae Omnibacteria Planctomycetes Proteobacteria Spirochaetes Thermodesulfobacteria Thermomicrobia Thermotogae Bacteria (singular, bacterium) are a major group of living organisms. ...
A pathogen or infectious agent is a biological agent that causes disease or illness to its host. ...
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Families Acrochordidae Aniliidae Anomalepididae Anomochilidae Atractaspididae Boidae Bolyeriidae Colubridae Cylindrophiidae Elapidae Hydrophiidae Leptotyphlopidae Loxocemidae Pythonidae Tropidophiidae Typhlopidae Uropeltidae Viperidae Xenopeltidae Snakes are cold blooded legless reptiles closely related to lizards, which share the order Squamata. ...
Inflammation is the first response of the immune system to infection or irritation and may be referred to as the innate cascade. ...
An itch (Latin: pruritus) is a sensation felt on an area of skin that makes a person or animal want to scratch it. ...
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Families Tungidae – sticktight and chigoe fleas (chiggers) Pulicidae – common fleas Coptopsyllidae Vermipsyllidae – carnivore fleas Rhopalopsyllidae – marsupial fleas Hypsophthalmidae Stephanocircidae Pygiopsyllidae Hystrichopsyllidae – rat and mouse fleas Leptopsyllidae – bird and rabbit fleas Ischnopsyllidae – bat fleas Ceratophyllidae Amphipsyllidae Malacopsyllidae Dolichopsyllidae – rodent fleas Ctenopsyllidae Flea is the common name for any of the small...
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Genera The mosquito is a member of the family Culicidae; these insects have a pair of scaled wings, a pair of halteres, a slender body, and long legs. ...
Malaria (from Medieval Italian: mala aria — bad air; formerly called ague or marsh fever) is an infectious disease that is widespread in many tropical and subtropical regions. ...
Treatment Bite wounds are washed, ideally with povidone-iodine soap and water. The injury is then loosely bandaged, but is not sutured due to risk of infection.
Animal bites inflicted by carnivores (other than rodents) are considered possible cases of rabies. The animal is caught alive or dead with its head preserved, so the head can later be analyzed to detect the disease. Signs of rabies include foaming at the mouth, self-mutilation, growling, jerky behavior, and red eyes. If the animal lives for ten days and does not develop rabies, then it is probable that no infection has occurred. The lion is a well-known, truly carnivorous member of the order Carnivora. ...
Families Many, see text The order Rodentia is the most numerous of all the branches on the mammal family tree. ...
If the animal is gone, prophylactic rabies treatment is recommended in most places. Certain places, such as Hawaii, are known not to have native rabies. Treatment is generally available in North America, Britain and the Northern European states. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
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Snakebite
Many of the world’s snakes are not considered dangerous to humans; however, even a bite from a “safe” species may cause significant injury to the victim if the wound is not treated properly. See snakebites for much more information. A snakebite, or snake bite, is a bite inflicted by a snake. ...
Spiderbite
The black widow spider and some scorpions are considered dangerous to humans, although mostly to small children and elderly adults. Only the Sydney funnel-web spider of Australia is frequently dangerous to adults, and it resides only within 100 miles of Sydney Australia. Antivenins are available in the United States for black widow spiders and the dangerous scorpions native to the region. See spiderbite for much more information. Species L. mactans Fabricius, 1775 L. hesperus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 L. variolus Walckenaer, 1837 The black widow spider (Latrodectus spp. ...
Superfamilies Pseudochactoidea Buthoidea Chaeriloidea Chactoidea Iuroidea Scorpionoidea See classification for families. ...
Binomial name Atrax robustus Pickard-Cambridge, 1877 The Sydney funnel-web spider, also called a funnel-web tarantula, (Atrax robustus) is regarded by some to be the most dangerous spider in the world. ...
The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia with a metropolitan area population of over 4. ...
Suborders Araneomorphae Mesothelae Mygalomorphae See the taxonomy section for families Spiders are predatory invertebrate animals that produce silk, and have two tagma, eight legs, no chewing mouth parts and no wings. ...
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A snakebite, or snake bite, is a bite inflicted by a snake. ...
Suborders Araneomorphae Mesothelae Mygalomorphae See the taxonomy section for families Spiders are predatory invertebrate animals that produce silk, and have two tagma, eight legs, no chewing mouth parts and no wings. ...
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