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These notes are a comprehensive collection of information to complement the lectures and labs delivered in Systems Pathology on the topic of the hemolymphatic system. Although all of the information is useful, certain areas will be emphasized in lecture. Let the areas focussed on in lectures and lab guide your studying. There are a few rare conditions that are not discussed in these notes, and you are encouraged to read through the relevant chapters in the textbooks recommended below.

The notes are available online at http://russfraser.ca/hemolymphatic/, as a PDF on Moodle, and as an Epub (E-book format, suitable for a tablet or e-reader). Please feel free to provide feedback, whether on content, style, or typos!

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Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions.

  • Phone: 902-620-5183
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  • Office: 414N, Dept. of Pathology and Microbiology

Reference material

  • Zachary, J. F., & McGavin, M. D. (2016). Pathologic Basis of Veterinary Disease Expert Consult. Elsevier Health Sciences.
  • Maxie, G. (2015). Jubb, Kennedy & Palmer’s Pathology of Domestic Animals-E-Book (Vol. 3). Elsevier Health Sciences.

Acknowledgements

These lecture notes were prepared in R (R Core Team 2022) using the bookdown (Xie 2015), knitr (Xie 2022), and Rmarkdown (Allaire et al. 2022) packages. Source material was taken from Zachary and McGavin (2022) and Maxie (2015). I gratefully acknoweldge the prior course notes from Dr. Shannon Martinson. Images are attributed throughout the text; unattributed images are either mine or were found in the public domain.

References

Allaire, JJ, Yihui Xie, Jonathan McPherson, Javier Luraschi, Kevin Ushey, Aron Atkins, Hadley Wickham, Joe Cheng, Winston Chang, and Richard Iannone. 2022. Rmarkdown: Dynamic Documents for r. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rmarkdown.
Maxie, Grant. 2015. Jubb, Kennedy & Palmer’s Pathology of Domestic Animals-e-Book. 6th ed. Vol. 1. Elsevier Health Sciences.
R Core Team. 2022. R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing. Vienna, Austria: R Foundation for Statistical Computing. https://www.R-project.org/.
Xie, Yihui. 2015. Dynamic Documents with R and Knitr. 2nd ed. Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman; Hall/CRC. http://yihui.name/knitr/.
———. 2022. Knitr: A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in r. https://yihui.org/knitr/.
Zachary, James F, and M Donald McGavin. 2022. Pathologic Basis of Veterinary Disease Expert Consult. 7th ed. Elsevier Health Sciences.