{"id":112,"date":"2007-06-10T11:26:02","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T06:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/?p=112"},"modified":"2009-04-07T00:15:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T18:45:52","slug":"cyclop-two-views-of-this-fetal-monster-delivered-by-section-from-a-mare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/pathological\/cyclop-two-views-of-this-fetal-monster-delivered-by-section-from-a-mare\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cyclops&#8221;, two views of this fetal monster delivered by section"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclopia is a teratology (meaning birth defect) wherein the development of the face of the animal is so affected that it has only one eye towards the center of its head.\u00a0 The term cyclops has its origin from the Greek and later Roman mythology, where it refers to primordial race of giants having a single eye in the centre of their foreheads.<\/p>\n<p>This calf was delivered at a veterinary hospital in Kashmir by a cesarean section. The animal was still born (meaning dead\u00a0 at birth). Its quite rare to see such a distinct cyclopia in calves.<\/p>\n<p>The causes of such fetal monstrosity is not well understood but many substances have been incriminated in its occurance. Predominantly certain alkaloids including cyclopamine, jervine, and cyclopasine are known to cause cyclopia among other birth defects when consumed during early pregnancy. These alkaloids are found in some plants that the animals encounter during grazing especially of the <em>Veratrum<\/em> spp. These plants and many other alkaloids also cause abortions at various stages of pregnancy. Ewes have been know to be especially susceptable to Cyclopia from grazing on the <em>Veratum<\/em> plants.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 564px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image105\" title=\"Frontal view of cyclop monster calf teratology\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Monster-Front-view.jpg\" alt=\"calf frontal view cyclop monster teratology\" width=\"554\" height=\"739\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frontal view of cyclop monster calf teratology<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 564px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image106\" title=\"Lateral view of cyclop monster calf teratology\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Monster-LateralView.jpg\" alt=\"calf lateral view cyclop monster teratology\" width=\"554\" height=\"416\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lateral view of cyclop monster calf teratology<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclopia is a teratology (meaning birth defect) wherein the development of the face of the animal is so affected that it has only one eye towards the center of its head.\u00a0 The term cyclops has its origin from the Greek and later Roman mythology, where it refers to primordial race of giants having a single [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[109,21,24,31,126,506,110,130,123,127,124,120,128,121,129],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pathological","tag-abortion","tag-bovine","tag-calf","tag-cattle","tag-cyclop","tag-cyclop-monster-teratology","tag-dead-fetus","tag-dead-monster","tag-dystokia","tag-fetus","tag-malformed","tag-monster","tag-mutagen","tag-teratology","tag-tratogen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}