USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Veterinary Services
Export Glossary
USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
ADMINISTRATOR: The Administrator, APHIS, or any person authorized to act for the administrator.
AIC: Animal Import Center
AIC: Animal Identification Coordinator
AHS: African Horse Sickness
AGID: Agar gel immunodiffusion test
ANIMAL BY-PRODUCT: Any inedible part, or combination of inedible parts of carcasses of livestock or poultry, processed by cooking, curing, drying or other acceptable methods.
APHIS: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
APHIS REPRESENTATIVE: An individual employed by APHIS who is authorized to perform occicial function s.
APPROVED ESTABLISHMENT: An establishment approved by APHIS for the receipt and handling of restricted import animal products or byproducts under 9CFR Chapter I, subchapter D.
AVIAN: Birds
AVIC: Area Veterinarian In Charge
BLV: Bovine Leukosis Virus
BOAR: The uncasterated male of swine.
BOVINE: Animals of the bovidae family includes the genus bos....(usually referring to cattle)
BREEDING ANIMAL: Any animal used for the purpose of breeding.
BR: BRUCELLOSIS
BSE: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy AKA: Mad Cow Disease.
BVD: Bovine Viral Diarrhea
CAMELIDS/CAMELIDAE: The phylogenetic family which includes camels, llamas, alpacas, guanacos, vicunas
CANINE/CANIDAE: Members of the dog family.
CAPRINE/CAPRINAE: Animals of the goat family
CEAH: Centers for Epidemiology and Animal Health
CAHM: Center for Animal Health Monitoring
CERVINE/CERVIDAE: Deer, elk, moose
CEM: Contagious Equine Metritis
CITES: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
CLINICAL: Observable evidence of disease based on actual observation of signs or symptoms.
COMMINGLING: The mixing or assembling of animals from one premises with animals from any other premises, including but not limited to, loading animals from more than one premises on the same truck, trailer, vessel, or railroad car.
COMMUNICABLE DISEASE: A disease caused by a specific infectious agent capable of being transmited to a susceptible host.
CONSIGNEE: An agent or indivdual to whom merchandise is to be delivered.
DEPARTMENT: The United States Department of Agriculture
DISINFECTION: Killing infectious agents outside the body by chemical or physical means, directly applied.
DISTAL: Farthest away from the center or point of attachment.
DORSAL: Upper surface
DVM: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
ENDANGERED SPECIES: Those species defined in the Endangered Species Act which are faced with the daner of extinction.
ENDEMIC: Constant presence of a disease or infectious agent within a given geographic area.
EEE: Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis
EQUINE/EQUIDAE: Horses, mules, asses, and zebras
EVA: Equine Viral Arteritis
FADDL: Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory located on Plum Island, NY.
FARM ANIMAL: Any domestic species of cattle, bison, sheep, swine, goats, llamas, cervidae or horses which are normally and historically been kept and raised on farms in the US and used or intended for use as food or fiber. For a complete definition of the term refer to 9CFR Part 1.
FARROW: A litter of pigs or to give birth to a litter of pigs.
FEEDER ANIMAL: Any animal exported for feeding purposes.
FELINE/FELIDAE: Animals of the cat family.
FERAL: Wild or existing in a state of nature. As in living free from captivity in the wild.
FSO - Field Servicing Office
GERMPLASM: Semen, embryos, or ova.
GILT: A female swine that has not farrowed.
GRADE ANIMAL: Any animal not registered in a breed registry.
HERD: Any group of livestock maintained on common ground for any purpose.
HOST: Human or other living animal, including birds and arthropods, that nourish or harbor an infectious agent under natural conditions.
HOUSING FACILITY: Any land, premises, shed, barn, building, trailer or other structure or area housing or intended to house animals.
IBR: Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis
INFECTIOUS: Capable of being communicated without actual contact.
INSPECTOR: Any person employed by the Department who is authorized to perform a function under the act and regulations of the Code Of Federal Regulations.
INTERSTATE: Movement from any State into or through any other State.
INTRASTATE: Movement within a State without crossing it's borders.
IPV: Infectious Pustular Vulvovaginitis
ISOLATION: Separation of animals in such a manner that other animals do not have access to the isolated animal's body, excrement, or discharges, not allowing the isolated animals to share a building with a common ventilation system.
LICENSED VETERINARIAN: Any veterinarian licensed by any country or political subdivision thereof to practice veterinary medicine.
LIVESTOCK MARKET: A stockyard, buying station, concentration point, or any other premises where animals are assembled for sale.
LOAD: All the animals or birds carried on one vehicle.
MINIATURE HORSE: Any horse which at maturity measures 34 inches high or less from the ground to the base of the last hair of the mane at the withers.
MORBIDITY RATE: The number of individuals in a group that become ill during a specified time.
MORTALITY RATE: The number of individuals that die from a disease during a specified time, usually one year.
NAHMS: National Animal Health Monitoring System
NVSL: National Veterinary Services Laboratory located in Ames, Iowa.
OFFICIAL BRUCELLOSIS VACCINATE: A female bovine animal vaccinated against brucellosis in accordance with the provisions prescribed in the Recommended brucellosis Eradication Uniform Methods and Rules.
ORIGIN HEALTH CERTIFICATE: An official document issued by an APHIS representative or an accredited veterinarian at the point of origin of a shipment of animals to be moved.
OVINE/OVIDAE: Animals of the sheep family.
PATHOGEN: Disease agent
PET BIRDS: Birds , except ratites, which are exported for the personal pleasure of their individual owners and are not intended for resale.
PORCINE/SUIDAE: Swine, pigs, hogs
POULTRY: Chickens, doves, ducks, geese, grouse, guinea fowl, partridges, pea fowl, pheasants, pigeons, and quail, swans, and turkeys (including eggs for hatching).
PREMISES OF ORIGIN: The farm or other premises where the animals intended for export are being raised or assembled or both immediately before movement for export.
PRRS: Porcine Respiratory Reproductive Syndrome
PRV: Pseudorabies
PSITTACINE: Birds belonging to the parrot family
QUARANTINE: A strict isolation or restriction to a specified premise, designed to prevent the spread of disease, by stopping movement.
RATITES: Cassowaries, emus, kiwis, ostriches, and rheas.
REACTOR: REGISTERED ANIMAL: Any animal recorded in the book of record of an animal registry association which issued certificates concerning the pedigree of animals.
RUMINANT: An animal that has four-compartment stomach and chews a cud (partially digested rumen content). Cattle, sheep, goats, deer and elk are ruminants.
SEROLOGICAL: Analysis of blood serum for evidence of antibodies against specific disease.
SOW: A adult female swine.
SLAUGHTER ANIMAL: Any animal moving directly to slaughter.
STATE ANIMAL HEALTH OFFICIAL: The state official responsible for livestock and poultry disease control and eradication programs.
TB: Tuberculosis
TGE: Transmissible Gastroenteritis
TRANSMISSIBLE: Infectious or capable of being transmitted.
TRANSPORTING VEHICLE: Any truck, car, trailer, airplane, ship or railroad car used for transporting animals.
USDA: United States Department of Agriculture
VECTOR: An insect or other organism capable of transmitting germs or other agents of disease.
VEE: Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis
VMD: Veterinary Medical Doctor
VS: Veterinary Services
VSV: Vesicular Stomatitis Virus
VVND: Viscerotropic Velogenic Newcastle Disease
WEE: Western Equine Encephalomyelitis
WILD ANIMAL: Any animal which is now or historically has been found in the wild, or in the wild state, within the boundaries of the United States, its territories, or possessions. This term includes, but is not limited to, animals such as deer, skunk, opossum, raccoon, mink, armadillo, coyote, squirrel, fox, and wolf.
WILD RUMINANT: Wild cattle, bison, buffalo, sheep, goats, ; cud chewing and cloven hooved animals living in a wild state.
WILD STATE: Living in its original, natural condition; not domesticated, sometimes called feral.
ZOO ANIMAL: Any animal including poultry, intended for exhibition in a zoo, park or other place maintained for the exhibition of live animals for recreational or educational purposes.
ZOONOSIS: A zoonosis is a disease that humans may acquire from animals.
ZOONOTIC: Transmissible to humans from animals.