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Hock: Term for the ankle of a cat's hind leg.

Holistic: An alternative form of veterinary care which, rather than focusing on a singular disease, takes into account the whole of the patient.

HomeAgain: Brand name for microchips sold by Schering Plough to veterinarians for permanent identification of companion animals.

Homeopathic: A system of veterinary practice that treats a disease by the administration of very minute doses of a remedy that in a healthy animal would produce the symptoms of the disease that is being treated.

Honey Mink: Term referring to the intermediate brown color of Tonkinese, corresponding to chocolate.

Hookworm: Any of numerous small parasitic nematode worms of the family Ancylostomatidae, having hooked mouthparts with which they fasten themselves to the intestinal walls of various hosts, including humans, causing ancylostomiasis. Also called uncinaria.

Hormone: A substance, usually a peptide or steroid, produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity, such as growth or metabolism.