If the information on this page can help prevent the loss of a sheep to bloat, it will have been worth my time to put this information here. In the simplest of explanations, bloat is an excess of gases in the rumen of sheep. But it should always be considered an emergency situation.
atrial natriuretic peptide. noun. Medical Definition of atrial natriuretic peptide. : a peptide hormone secreted by myocytes of the cardiac atria that in pharmacological doses promotes salt and water excretion and lowers blood pressureâabbreviation ANP; called also atrial natriuretic factor, atriopeptin.
exists and is an alternate of . Antidiuretic hormone is made in the hypothalamus and then stored in the axon terminals (or nerve ends) of the posterior pituitary gland, which lies just below the hypothalamus and is linked to it by a network of nerve fibres.