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Tortoise: swelling on neck due to abscess

Vitamin A deficiency in red-eared terrapin

Tortoise: diarrhoeic faeces with worms

Tortoise: stomatitis - bacterial infection

Tortoise: tympanic membrane - inflammation

Bacterial infection on tortoise's ear

Normal lungs of a tortoise

Lacerated, amputated penis of a tortoise.

Tortoise: stomatitis - fungal infection

Intravenous injection into tail of tortoise

Tortoise: opened stomach with ascarids

Radiograph of normal eggs in a tortoise.

Tortoise: caesarian section

Tortoise: intramuscular injection

Terrapin with rickets - vitamin deficiency

Tortoise: shell burn - horny layer destroyed

Tortoise: burn on shell has caused necrosis

Postmortem of tortoise: severe pneumonia

Radiograph: severe pneumonia in tortoise

Tortoise: retained scutes. (Note how the rims are

Ticks on the skin of a tortoise's thigh.

Tortoise: paraphymosis, irritation of cloaca

Transverse section of a tortoise's abscess

Tortoise: fractured shell

Tortoise: cloacal prolapse

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