By Mayo Clinic Staff. An intravenous pyelogram (PIE-uh-low-gram), also called an excretory urogram, is an X-ray exam of your urinary tract. An intravenous pyelogram lets your doctor view your kidneys, your bladder and the tubes that carry urine from your kidneys to your bladder (ureters).
The silver, silver dapple, chocolate flax or Taffy gene. Silver, or silver dapple is the common term used for horses with a dilution gene that works to dilute black pigment. The gene usually causes a partial lightening of black pigment in the body coat and a more extreme lightening (or âsilveringâ) of the mane and tail.
Dapple is a pattern seen in Dachshunds. It is commonly referred to as Merle in other breeds of dogs (Collie, Sheltie, Great Dane, Australian Shepherd).It is important to understand that dapple is NOT a color, it is a pattern.Dappling can be compared to painting a room in your house. Say you paint the room green. piebald does not have dapple. A piebald does not have blue eyes, or partial blue eyes. A Piebald is normally marked symmetrically...meaning that if one ear is black, the other ear is black. If one paw is white, the other paw is white.