Pet owner educational atlas dermatology

Skin pathologies

20 Tick bites and

attachment to the skin Female tick ingesting blood in order to lay the eggs

Tick head (retractable sucking mouthparts) The tick secretes a substance that attachs its mouthparts into the host’s skin

Palps Chelicerae

Inflammatory skin reaction

Hypostome

The saliva of the tick has an anticoagulant effect and causes a small haemorrhage from which it feeds

The tick inoculates the pathogenic agents during feeding

Pet owner educational atlas dermatology

Published on Mar 10, 2014

Grupo Asís, S.L.

About

This illustrated work aims at helping veterinary surgeons to com- municate with pet owners. In keeping with the previous volume about surgery, the illustrations of this atlas dedicated to dermatology will simplify the explanations given by vets to their clients about the anatomical, physiological and pathological character- istics of skin, as well as those about the diagnostic tests, treat- ments and surgical techniques that may need to be carried out in some cases. Every illustration was designed to help in the different clinical as- pects of the dermatology consultation, from the anatomical and physiological considerations about the skin and its annexes, to the graphic description of infectious, inflammatory, endocrine, al- lergic or tumoral disease processes which cause dermatological conditions. The clarity and accuracy of the illustrations, designed to make the explanations given to owners easier to understand and less time- consuming, turn this atlas into anoth

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