{"id":498,"date":"2008-11-25T06:45:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T01:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/?p=498"},"modified":"2008-11-30T17:32:52","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T12:02:52","slug":"bovine-fetal-mummification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/pathological\/bovine-fetal-mummification\/","title":{"rendered":"Bovine Fetal Mummification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mummification happens when a fetus dies inside the uterus but the pregnancy is maintained. Thus the dead fetus is not expelled (which usually happens in 7-10 days after its death) and shrivels up. The pregnancy does not get terminated because either the dead fetus is one of a twin (the other being alive), which is rare or the persistence of the <em>Corpus luteum <\/em>of pregnancy in the mother.\u00a0 Fetal mummification is also seen sometimes in ewes and mares with twin fetuses.<\/p>\n<p>Two types of mummification have been encountered in domestic animals; the hematic and the papyraceous type. While the former is seen only in cattle and is most commonly observed in the Channel Island breeds; the papyraceous type occurs in all species.<\/p>\n<p>Genetic or chromosomal defects, torsion or compression of the umbilical cord, placental defects, infectious agents and abnormal hormonal concentrations are the usual suspect causes behind mummification.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/image099.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-486\" title=\"Mummified Bovine fetus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/image099.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/image101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-487\" title=\"Mummified Bovine fetus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/image101.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"593\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/image102.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-488\" title=\"Mummified Bovine fetus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/image102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"707\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pic credits: Dr Khurshid Ahmad Shah<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mummification happens when a fetus dies inside the uterus but the pregnancy is maintained. Thus the dead fetus is not expelled (which usually happens in 7-10 days after its death) and shrivels up. The pregnancy does not get terminated because either the dead fetus is one of a twin (the other being alive), which is [&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":[492,493,494,495],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pathological","tag-bovine-fetal-mummification","tag-fetal-mummification","tag-mummification","tag-mummified-calf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","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=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}