Diagnosis of an ailment is soul of clinical practice and perhaps the biggest challenge as far as veterinary clinical practice is concerned. A long array of procedures, diagnostic test and methods are available for a clinician that can aid him to make his interpretation and make a promising opinion about any disease condition. Blood profiling remained one of the most valuable Diagnostic technique since times and in it Complete Blood Count/ Picture is very cardinal test that provide a glance about pathophysiological state of a subject in very quick convenient and economical way. Thus this review aims at understanding different parameters of Complete Blood Count (CBC) test in important farm and companion animals. It also give insights into modern technology that is making these tests more refined and easily accessible to patients as well as to clinicians.

A less documented entity of psoriatic arthritis was studied in 238 cases of psoriasis and it was detected in 5.1 % of cases. The prevalence of arthritis was found in the population over 40 years of age and was 2.7% of the males and 8.2% of the females. Psoriatic arthritis was much more common in females (male to female ratio = 1:2) in contrast to male predominance in psoriasis (male to female ratio = 1.6:1. Skin lesions usually precede the arthritis (50%); in others the onset is synchronous (41.7%) and in few of them the arthritis may come first (8.3%). Athritis is commonly encountered with moderate to severe involvement of skin (75%). In deforming type of arthritis the psoriasis was extensive and exfoliative (17%). The nails are more frequently involved at the onset of the arthritis. Rose-Waaler Test was negative in all of them. Anaemia (41.6%) and raised ESR (25%) was a feature in the active phase of the disease. Hyperurecaemia was noted in 41.6% of cases, indicating towards the extensive involvement of skin. The importance of radiological evaluation of spine, sterno-clavicular and sacro-iliac joints in all patients is stressed. Certain unusual features noted in the presented series of cases are; calcaneal spur (17%), spondylolisthesis (8.5%) and presence of LE cells (8.3%).