Medical dictionary. 2011.
gill disease — see bacterial, dietary, hamburger, nutritional and proliferative gill disease … Dictionary of ichthyology
gill disease — noun Etymology: gill (III) : a destructive disease of trout and other fishes (as in hatcheries) marked by swollen eroded gills and usually anemia and severe general debility and considered due to an unidentified bacterium or to a dietary… … Useful english dictionary
hamburger gill disease — proliferative gill disease (a disease of farmed freshwater fish, mostly in new ponds, caused by a myxosporidean parasite (Henneguya exilis, or possibly the myxozoan Sphaerospora ictaluri or Aurantiactinomyxo). Cysts develop on the gills causing… … Dictionary of ichthyology
proliferative gill disease — a disease of farmed freshwater fish, mostly in new ponds, caused by a myxosporidean parasite (Henneguya exilis, or possibly the myxozoan Sphaerospora ictaluri or Aurantiactinomyxo). Cysts develop on the gills causing respiratory distress as well… … Dictionary of ichthyology
western gill disease — nutritional gill disease (hyperplasia of gills caused by a deficiency of pantothenic acid in the diet) … Dictionary of ichthyology
bacterial gill disease — a disease caused by unfaourable environmental conditions which then allow an invasion by myxobacteria; fish show a lack of appetite and cannot school properly. The gills show clubbing and fusion of lamellae a myxobacterial infection of juvenile… … Dictionary of ichthyology
dietary gill disease — a disease of fish caused by a deficiency in pantothenic acid … Dictionary of ichthyology
environmental gill disease — swollen gills caused by an irritating pollutant … Dictionary of ichthyology
nutritional gill disease — hyperplasia of gills caused by a deficiency of pantothenic acid in the diet … Dictionary of ichthyology
Gill-man — infobox fictional creature name = The Gill man caption = The Gill man, as portrayed by Ben Chapman in Creature from the Black Lagoon . classification = Devonian amphibian first = Creature from the Black Lagoon last = The Monster Squad created by … Wikipedia
