Canine Pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas that can occur in two very different forms. Acute pancreatitis is sudden while chronic pancreatitis is characterized by recurring or persistent form of pancreatic inflammation.Cases of both can be considered mild or severe.ancreatitis is caused by autodigestion of the pancreas thought to begin with an increase in secretion of pancreatic enzymes in response to a stimulus, which can be anything from table scraps to getting into the garbage to drugs, toxins, and trauma.
or British mollusc /ËmÉËlÉsk/. plural mollusks. Learner's definition of MOLLUSK. [count] biology. : any one of a large group of animals (such as snails and clams) that have a soft body without a backbone and that usually live in a shell.
Mollusks are members of the phylum mollusca. Mollusks have been evolving in the sea for over 600 million years and there are more than 100 000 mollusks species. The mollusks phylum includes tiny snails, squid, octopus, clams, oysters, abalone, and cuttlefish.They are considered to be the most intelligent of the invertabrate species.he study of mollusks is called malacology. There are four main classes in the phylum mollusca, gastropods, bivalve, cephalopod and Polyplacophora. Gastropods include nudibranches, slugs and snails. They compose over one third of the mollusk group and most are single spiral shells but some have no shells.