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Instructions: Define each term in your own words. Onychectomy: ____________________________________________

___________ Ideally, dewclaws should be removed during the first week of the animal’s life.

Which phenomenon in salivary ducts of dogs explains why the salivary secretion between meals is hypotonic relative to the primary secretion of the acinar cells:

Stem cells at the crypt base give rise to all the epithelial cell types in the intestine. Which one of the following statements about intestinal epithelial stem cells is FALSE?

Which of the following will decrease the diffusion of oxygen from the alveoli to the arterial blood?

In which region is the respiratory rhythm initially generated?

When H+ secretion is greater than the filtered load of bicarbonate, which of the following is true?

The stinging sensation caused by injection of local anesthetics can be reduced by adding 0.1 mL of __________________ to 10 mL of the local agent.  

Which reflex significantly diminishes or is absent when the patient enters the surgical plane of anesthesia?  

Which of the following is not a crystalloid solution?