"Swayback" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Congenital locomotor ataxia of lambs, thought to be associated with copper deficiency. It is characterized clinically by progressive incoordination of the hind limbs and pathologically by disruption of neuron and myelin development in the central nervous system. It is caused by a deficiency of metabolizable copper in the ewe during the last half of her pregnancy. (Dorland, 28th ed; Stedman, 26th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D013540
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C18.654.521.500.857 C22.836.886
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| Concept/Terms |
Swayback- Swayback
- Enzootic Ataxia
- Ataxia, Enzootic
- Ataxias, Enzootic
- Enzootic Ataxias
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