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ANIMAL PAIN [14 records]

Record 1 2023-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Protection of Farm Animals
  • Scientific Research
  • Ethics and Morals
CONT

Refinement refers to any modifications to husbandry or experimental procedures that minimize pain and distress for an animal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Protection des animaux (Agric.)
  • Recherche scientifique
  • Éthique et Morale
CONT

Le raffinement désigne les modifications apportées à l'élevage ou aux procédures expérimentales afin de réduire la douleur et la détresse chez les animaux.

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-10-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Slaughterhouses
CONT

Traditionally the purpose of stunning is to render the animal unconscious(and thus insensible to pain) but not to actually kill it. Death is caused by loss of blood following sticking. This kind of stunning is called(in the case of electrical stunning) head-only stunning. Inherent within it is the danger that it is reversible, i. e. animals may regain consciousness before death occurs, which will result in very considerable suffering.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Abattoirs
DEF

Dans un abattoir, anesthésie par électrocution pratiquée sur les porcs avant égorgement.

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-08-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Veterinary Equipment
  • Slaughterhouses
OBS

[The] dispatch kit combines the techniques of controlled blunt-force trauma and penetrating captive bolt into a euthanasia system. It can be used to euthanise a range of species, from small animals such as poultry through to extremely large animals such as bulls.

OBS

[The] stunner [included in the dispatch kit] renders the animal instantly and irreversibly insensible to pain prior to slaughter, eliminating stress and suffering, improving meat quality and throughput, resulting in increased profits.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement vétérinaire
  • Abattoirs
DEF

Trousse servant à étourdir les animaux pour les euthanasier ou pour les préparer à l’abattage, selon le cas.

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Slaughterhouses
  • Regulations and Standards (Food)
CONT

The shochet performs the slaughter process using a long, razor-sharp knife known as a “chalef” that renders the animal insensible to pain with a single cut. In contrast to non-religious slaughter, the animal is not stunned prior to slaughter.

CONT

The shochet uses a chalaf, a knife with a straight blade about 18 inches long with a blunt, unpointed end. The blade must be razor sharp and without the slightest nick.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Abattoirs
  • Réglementation et normalisation (Alimentation)
CONT

Une seule entaille transversale sectionnant tous les tissus et vaisseaux sanguins est pratiquée dans le cou à l’aide d’un couteau spécial très affuté (chalaf). Le tranchant du couteau doit être examiné après chaque entaille.

Spanish

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Record 5 2011-08-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Care Equipment (Farm equipment)
CONT

When closely observing the head of an animal, direct restraint using halters may be required to limit motion when handling. Limit the use of “nose tongs, ” “war bridles, ” nose or ear twitches, hog snares, etc. as much as possible, as these cause pain to animals.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Soins aux animaux (Matériel agricole)
CONT

Pour l’observation rapprochée de la tête d’un animal, il peut être nécessaire de procéder à une contention directe au moyen de licous, de façon à limiter les mouvements de la tête pendant la manipulation. Limitez le plus possible le recours aux bâtons conducteurs pour taureau, aux brides sans mors de fortune («war bridles»), aux tord-nez ou «tord-oreilles», aux lassos à groin pour les porcs, etc., car ces moyens sont douloureux pour les animaux.

Spanish

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Record 6 2009-08-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Veterinary Medicine
  • Horse Husbandry
DEF

Treatment of an injury with a hot iron.

CONT

The scientific evidence for whether the firing of horses is ethically acceptable relates to two issues... Is firing an effective therapy?... If it is effective, is the level of suffering caused justified by the effectiveness and long term benefit to the animal? The most obvious source of suffering is pain related to the thermal burns that come with firing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médecine vétérinaire
  • Élevage des chevaux
DEF

Cautérisation thérapeutique par le feu [...]

OBS

[...] souvent pratiquée sur les tendons des chevaux.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Medicina veterinaria
  • Cría de ganado caballar
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Record 7 2008-09-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Anyone who keeps a mischievous animal does so at his peril, on pain of being responsible for the harm it may do in indulging its dangerous instincts, provided he knows or is presumed to know its vicious disposition... liability for dangerous animals postulates knowledge, express or imputed, of their vicious propensity...

OBS

As opposed to "express knowledge."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
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Record 8 2007-02-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Protection of Farm Animals
OBS

The Canadian Association for Humane Trapping(CAHT) was founded in the late 1940's and received its national charter as a not-for-profit, charitable association from the Secretary of State on January 21, 1954. CAHT is a charitable, non-profit organization which works constructively toward abolishing the suffering imposed on wild animals by devices or trapping systems used to capture them. It is not a trapping, anti-trapping or animal rights organization. CAHT respects diverse philosophies and approaches while reserving the right to promote its own objectives. CAHT's mission is to abolish the pain and suffering of animals trapped for any reason. CAHT seeks to work with persons and institutions promoting humane trapping improvements benefiting wild animals and wildlife biologists, conservationists, the fur industry, governments and their officials, and to make practical progress to reduce and eliminate avoidable pain, suffering and injury of fur bearers.

OBS

Title and abbreviation confirmed by the association.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Protection des animaux (Agric.)
OBS

Appellation et abréviation confirmés par l'organisme.e

OBS

Proposition de traduction : Association canadienne du piégeage humanitaire.

Spanish

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Record 9 2002-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parasitoses
CONT

Usually human cases are related to contaminated food, especially poultry, eggs, milk and their products. Persons who work with animals may become infected by the agent shed in animal feces. Human Salmonellosis may occur 6-72 hours after ingestion of the agent. Fever, muscle aches, headache and malaise are followed by abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. The diarrhea may resolve in 2-4 days but some people may continue to shed the bacteria with no signs of disease. Some types of Salmonella can cause septicemia which can result in a disease of longer duration and greater severity.

OBS

Canada Diseases Weekly Report.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parasitoses
CONT

L'évolution clinique de la salmonellose humaine se caractérise habituellement par une instauration brutale de la fièvre, des douleurs abdominales, de la diarrhée, des nausées et parfois des vomissements.

Spanish

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Record 10 1999-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nervous System
CONT

Recent animal studies... reveal that chronic pain can alter the central nervous system, making the discomfort more severe and intractable through a "kindling effect".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système nerveux
CONT

Modèles animaux d'épilepsie chez le rat : Genetic Absence Epilepsy Rat of Strasbourg (GAERS), crises audiogènes, embrasement (kindling), pilocarpine, pentylènetétrazole.

Spanish

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Record 11 1995-04-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
OBS

Vegetarians opposed to all animals experimentation that involves the cutting, maiming, inflicting of pain and stress, or killing of animals; individuals who are sympathetic to the cause of animal welfare reform

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités

Spanish

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Record 12 1995-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Epidermis and Dermis
  • Respiratory Tract
CONT

Irritancy is the ability of a material to irritate the skin, eyes, nose, throat or any other part of the body that it contacts. Signs and symptoms of irritation include tearing in the eyes and reddening, swelling, itching and pain of the affected part of the body. Irritancy is often described as mild, moderate or severe, depending on the degree of irritation caused by a specific amount of the material. Irritancy may also be described by a number on a scale of 0 to 4, where 0 indicates no irritation and 4 means severe irritation. Irritancy is usually determined in animal experiments. The Controlled Products Regulations describe technical criteria for identifying materials which are skin or eye irritants.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Épiderme et derme
  • Voies respiratoires
CONT

La capacité que possède une substance d'irriter la peau, les yeux, le nez, la gorge ou toute autre partie du corps avec laquelle elle entre en contact. L'irritation se manifeste par différents symptômes, comme la rougeur des yeux et le larmoiement, l'enflure, la démangeaison et la douleur de la partie affectée. L'irritation est dite "faible", "modérée" ou "grave", selon le degré d'irritation causée par une quantité donnée de la substance. On peut aussi avoir recours à une échelle de 0 à 4, 0 indiquant que la substance n'a causé aucune irritation et 4 indiquant que la substance a causé une irritation grave. Le degré d'irritation est déterminé par des expériences de laboratoire pratiquées sur des animaux. Le Règlement sur les produits contrôlés donne les critères techniques servant à déterminer qu'un produit est irritant pour la peau ou les yeux.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Epidermis y dermis
  • Vías respiratorias
DEF

Es una estimulación intensa que va seguida de lesión anatómica y se ejerce sobre estructuras y funciones no especializadas.

CONT

El SO2 produce la irritación de las vías respiratorias, sobre todo para concentraciones superiores a ocho ppm, que ya produce la irritación inmediata de la garganta.

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Record 13 1993-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Programs and Courses
  • Insurance
  • Veterinary Medicine
DEF

Name of a health insurance plan for house pets

CONT

Feeling dogged by the high cost of veterinary treatment for your pet? "Montreal insurance broker Barry Nichol thinks he has the answer : Medipet/Ani-Maux, insurance for housepets.... "Pet insurance works like any health insurance plan : a pet owner pays regular premiums, then when the animal gets sick or injured and an expensive veterinary treatment is needed, the lion's share of the costs are covered. "For instance, the Medipet/Ani-Maux policy(the French version of the name is a contraction of animal and maux, which means pain) pays 70 per cent of the costs of treatment, after the deductible, which varies according to the program".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes et de cours
  • Assurances
  • Médecine vétérinaire

Spanish

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Record 14 1989-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Toxicology
  • Epidermis and Dermis
  • Respiratory Tract
DEF

irritating quality or character.

CONT

Irritancy is the ability of a material to irritate the skin, eyes, nose, throat or any other part of the body that it contacts. Signs and symptoms of irritation include tearing in the eyes and reddening, swelling, itching and pain of the affected part of the body. Irritancy is often described as mild, moderate or severe, depending on the degree of irritation caused by a specific amount of the material. Irritancy may also be described by a number on a scale of 0 to 4, where 0 indicates no irritation and 4 means severe irritation. Irritancy is usually determined in animal experiments. The Controlled Products Regulations describe technical criteria for identifying materials which are skin or eye irritants.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toxicologie
  • Épiderme et derme
  • Voies respiratoires
DEF

[...] capacité que possède une substance d'irriter la peau, les yeux, le nez, la gorge ou toute autre partie du corps avec laquelle elle entre en contact. L'irritation se manifeste par différents symptômes, comme la rougeur des yeux et le larmoiement, l'enflure, la démangeaison et la douleur de la partie affectée. L'irritation est dite "faible", "modérée, ou "grave", selon le degré d'irritation causée par une quantité donnée de la substance. On peut aussi avoir recours à une échelle de 0 à 4, 0 indiquant que la substance n'a causé aucune irritation et 4 indiquant que la substance a causé une irritation grave. Le degré d'irritation est déterminé par des expériences de laboratoire pratiquées sur des animaux. Le Règlement sur les produits contrôlés donne les critères techniques servant à déterminer qu'un produit est irritant pour la peau ou les yeux.

Spanish

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