Talk:Horse colic

message: Last edit in an irrelevant place. However, anecdotally, "FGG" is seen as a cause of spasmodic colic there, so I moved it across.
Dlh-stablelights 12:55, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fresh green grass

message: Listed under types of colic are several parasitic causes, but these are not really types of colic, but reasons for a colic occuring.  For example, tapeworms (Anoplocephala perfoliata) are a predisposing factor to ileo-caecal intussusception, roundworms predispose to small intestinal intussusception.  I would propose that these parasites are listed as possible causes under these specific types of colic, rather than as a type of colic themselves. Any disagreements? Alsiola vet (talk) 02:53, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Better wording is always good.  Go for it!  Montanabw(talk) 06:20, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

text: Thanks for the support.  I think it will be a reasonably large change to make, so I've created a new user page here to get it all structured and layed out properly before committing it to the actual page.  I have already a draft classification structure there, so any comments on that would be great.Alsiola vet (talk) 21:56, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Go bug Getwood and Joel Mills, they are the wikiproject vet folks!  They can tell you if you are on the right track.  Be sure to wikilink everything you can (within reason and the guidelines, of course) One thing I DO recommend is to footnote extensively as you go, far easier than doing it later when people start challenging your material.  You have some refs, but for GA standard they have a somewhat silly but nearly impossible to challenge informal rule that every paragraph should have a cite.  See Gelding as an example of an article that is almost but not quite ready to go for GA status.  Montanabw(talk) 03:26, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restructure types 

message: Creating a section here to discuss article improvement.  User:Eventer asked at my talk page if the article is getting too long and if it should be split.  My thinking, upon review, is no.  However, the TOC (table of contents) is getting a bit unwieldy, and I'm wondering if it would work to put all the different types of colic into a chart instead of under separate subheadings.  For a chart design, I'm thinking maybe one similar to these examples:Rainbow_trout#Subspecies, Appaloosa#Color_and_spotting_patterns, or maybe one of the featured lists.  Montanabw(talk) 19:16, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article improvement 

message: Can any one figure what does "aborad" mean in the following: "Coastal bermuda hay is associated with impactions in this most aborad segment of the small intestine."GinAndChronically (talk) 15:42, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It did come up with my search of typos of "aboard" and "abroad" but I seriously doubt that easy an explanation.GinAndChronically (talk) 05:06, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Could be a typo, but I want Eventer to check, "abroad" doesn't seem to fit the context, either.  Montanabw(talk) 07:03, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I was not saying that those could be possibilities but only how it was found by transposing letter according to how they are on the qwerty board.GinAndChronically (talk) 10:00, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll bet that's it.  Can you wikilink to the anatomical terminology article?  Montanabw(talk) 01:47, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that is it. Perhaps it would be easier to understand if we used the term "distal"? Eventer (talk) 02:47, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Would look like less of a typo.  Or educate the reader by wikilinking to Anatomical terms of location.  Montanabw(talk) 21:29, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meaning = "aborad" 

message: Is there a difference between pelvic flexures and colic flexures? – wbm1058 (talk) 14:26, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Good question and I am not sure. Maybe post the question at WP Veterinary medicine.  All I know is that those spots in the large colon are a common site for certain types of colic in horses. Montanabw(talk) 20:01, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  There is a helpful diagram on page 414 this anatomy book (which is a previewable page on Google Books) where you can see the carnivore and horse large intestines compared. To me, it looks like the two sets of large intestines aren't really directly comparable in terms of nomenclature. Take a look and see what you think. DferDaisy ([[User talk:
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replies: text: Thanks for the info.  I'm guessing, then, that the answer is "yes, there is a difference."   thoughts?   Montanabw(talk) 23:39, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia's coverage of the anatomy and diseases of other species is poor. Contrast with the extensive coverage of human anatomy and diseases. Colic is just a word meaning, "relating to the colon", but usually it refers to some pain or disease. Pelvic just means "relating to the pelvic region" of the body. Note that our article on the topic doesn't mention horses' pelvic regions. So, a "pelvic flexure" in a horse would just be a bend in the colon in the pelvic region of the horses' body; in other words a pelvic colic flexure. Rather than link to human-centric articles on the topic, I'd just try to add more to this article describing horse colons because they aren't discussed in detail elsewhere on Wikipedia, unless I'm missing something. – wbm1058 (talk) 00:10, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  It’s a matter of (brace for groaner metaphor) horses to pull the wagon.  WP Vet med was inactive for awhile but  and some others are getting it going again.  In cases where a condition or disease is similar in humans and animals, I don’t think there is a one-size-fits-all answer.  Sometimes, as here, separate articles are appropriate, but other times, a simple section on anything unique to non-humans would be easy enough to add to an existing article (for example, navicular bone or clubfoot). I it really would be overwhelming to do separate articles on, say, the scapula of every separate species of animal —  but at any rate all help that is good quality is very much welcomed.  Montanabw(talk) 03:33, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pelvic flexures 

message: This edit contained useful (if somewhat outdated) information, but the citation format is incorrect for WP and incomplete, to boot.  Would benefit from a good copyedit for encyclopedic tone, too.  But if someone — including the editor who wrote this — is willing to do this right, I’m keeping it here for future improvement. Montanabw(talk) 05:01, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Useful if formatted