Panophthalmitis is a common finding. Cephalopods have one type of blood cell, called hemocytes or amebocytes, which contain large eosinophilic granules and monomorphic nuclei. Adenitis, amebocytic, necrotizing, multifocal, moderate, with bacilli. Please note that some histoslides contain only sections of the systemic heart and digestive gland. In these sections, the lesion within the digestive gland is more extensive, and the lesion of the systemic heart is a focal, nodular endocarditis.
Cuttlefish are creatures with many unique anatomic features.
Cuttlefish hearts are part of an essentially closed circulatory system and all are prone to bacterial seeding during septicemia. Cuttlefish do not have a true liver or pancreas but do have a digestive gland which has been called liver or hepatopancreas by some. Selected diseases of captive and laboratory reared cephalopods. Academic Press Inc. New York, pp. The patient had a cluster of rapidly enlarging subcutaneous lumps in the inguinal area.