canine

(kā'nīn)
adj.

1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the canids.
2. Of, relating to, or being one of the pointed conical teeth located between the incisors and the first bicuspids.

n.

1. An animal of the family Canidae, especially a dog.
2. One of the pointed, conical teeth located between the incisors and the first bicuspids. Also called cuspid.

[Latin canīnus, from canis, dog.]

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The pointed teeth in the front of the mouth (two on the top and two on the bottom) next to the incisors. These teeth are also known as the eyeteeth.

IN BRIEF: The family of animals that includes the dog.

The canine family includes dogs, wolves, coyotes and foxes.

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1. pertaining to or characteristic of dogs.
2. pertaining to a canine tooth (cuspid). See also teeth, dog.

• c. acidophil-cell hepatitis — an acute or chronic hepatitis reported in dogs in Great Britain, distinct from that caused by infectious canine hepatitis virus, characterized by the histopathologic presence of acidophil cells. Chronic active hepatitis and sometimes hepatocellular carcinoma may occur. The cause is unknown, but a viral etiology is suspected.
• c. adenovirus — type 1 (CAV-1) causes infectious canine hepatitis; type 2 (CAV-2) is one cause of canine respiratory disease complex (kennel cough).
• c. babesiosis — hemolytic disease of dogs caused by Babesia canis or B. gibsoni, transmitted by a tick, and characterized by anemia and hemoglobinuria. Called also tick fever, malignant jaundice.
• c. cognitive dysfunction syndrome — age-related deterioration of cognitive functions characterized by behavioral changes, disorientation, reduced level of interaction with others, and loss of sensory perception.
• c. erythrocyte antigen (CEA) — nomenclature revised to dog erythrocyte antigen (DEA).
• c. gastrointestinal hemorrhage syndrome — see canine hemorrhagic gastroenteritis.
• c. herpesvirus infection — a cause of a generalized, acute, rapidly fatal disease in neonatal puppies. In puppies older than 3 weeks and adults, mild to inapparent upper respiratory disease or vesicular genital lesions occur. The difference in age susceptibility is attributed to the temperature-dependent growth characteristics of the virus in that the optimum temperature for viral replication is about 91°F (33°C) so that puppies that are hypothermic develop severe, often fatal disease. Recovered puppies or dogs may have persistence of the virus in the genital or respiratory tracts.
• c. hip dysplasia — see hip dysplasia.
• c. hypertrophic osteodystrophy — see hypertrophic osteodystrophy.
• c. hypoxic rhabdomyolysis — see exertional rhabdomyolysis.
• infectious c. hepatitis — see infectious canine hepatitis.
• c. juvenile cellulitis — see juvenile pyoderma.
• c. juvenile osteodystrophy — see nutritional secondary hyperparathyroidism.
• c. laryngotracheitis — see kennel cough.
• c. nasal mites — see pneumonyssus caninum.
• c. papillomatosis — see canine viral papillomatosis.
• c. respiratory disease — see canine distemper, kennel cough.
• c. rickettsiosis — see canine ehrlichiosis.
• c. secretory alloantigen — see canine secretory alloantigen system.
• c. tracheobronchitis — see kennel cough.
• c. tropical pancytopenia — see canine ehrlichiosis.
• c. venereal tumor — see canine transmissible venereal tumor.
• c. viral hepatitis — see infectious canine hepatitis.
• c. viral papillomatosis — see canine viral papillomatosis.

(kā′nīn)
n

(cuspid), one of the four pointed teeth in human beings, situated one on each side of each jaw, distal to the lateral incisor; forms the keystone of the arch. The term canine is increasingly preferred to cuspid.

For a list of words related to canine, see:

• Mouth and Teeth - canine: sharp, pointed tooth behind incisor
• Animal Types and Parts - canine: member of family of carnivores including dogs, wolves, and foxes; (adj) of or like a dog
• Carnivores

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - hundeagtig, af hundefamilien
n. - hund, hjørnetand

Nederlands (Dutch)
hondachtig(e)

Français (French)
adj. - canin, (Dent) canine, (Mil) (corps) des maîtres chiens
n. - canin, canidé

Deutsch (German)
n. - Hund, Augen-/Eckzahn
adj. - Hunde-

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - σκύλος, κυνόδους, σκυλόδοντο
adj. - σκυλήσιος, κυνικός

Italiano (Italian)
canino, cane

Português (Portuguese)
n. - cachorro (m)
adj. - canino

Русский (Russian)
собака, клык, собачий

Español (Spanish)
adj. - canino
n. - perro, can, colmillo

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - hörntand, hunddjur
adj. - hund-, hundaktig

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
犬的, 犬科的, 似犬的, 犬, 狗, 犬齿, 犬科动物

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 犬的, 犬科的, 似犬的
n. - 犬, 狗, 犬齒, 犬科動物

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 개 같은, 개의
n. - 개 과의 동물, 송곳니

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 犬の, イヌ科の, 犬のような
n. - 犬, イヌ科の動物, 犬歯

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) متعلق بالكلاب, كلبي (صفه) شبيه بالكلب‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮כלבי, כמו כלב, ממשפחת הכלביים‬
n. - ‮כלב‬

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