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Loggerhead Marinelife Center's Coastal Classroom
Chronic Debilitation Quiz
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    Key Vocabulary Terms

    Carapace: the hard back shell of a sea turtle

    Chronic: persisting or continuing for a long time

    Debilitation: very weakened state/condition

    Ethogram: a catalog or table of all the different kinds of behavior or activity observed in an animal

    Epibiota: living organisms that can be found growing on another organism (like barnacles on a sea turtle shell)

    Nutrient: a substance that is essential for growth and/or life

    Treatment: medical care given to a patient for an illness or injury

    Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN): intravenous method of providing nutrients to turtles that are too weak to eat on their own, sometimes used with severe chronic debilitation cases

    Signs: a term used in veterinary medicine to indicate evidence of a disease or illness (compared to symptoms, used in human medicine)

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    Some of the common signs of chronic debilitation in sea turtles include: heavy epibiota load, being underweight, and being anemic (having low red blood cell counts)! See the barnacles on Citrus' carapace (shell) in the image below?

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    Yes! Thanks to the treatments available in our hospital, many of our chronic debilitated patients make a full recovery and are released!

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    Total Parenteral Nutrition, freshwater soaks to remove epibiota, and iron injections to help anemia are all treatments that could be used in our chronic debilitated patients!

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