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Title: The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London, Gresham Pub. Co.
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ll metacarpalbones below. Inwardly,it articulates with thecuneiform magnum andthe cuneiform medium. The CuneiformMagnum is a Hat bonecovered on its two surfaceswith cartilage. It occupiesa position between theastragalus above and thecuneiform medium below,and articulates besideswith the cuboid, the cal-cis, and the cuneiformparvum. The Cuneiform Medium is a triangularbone, and, like the mag-num, presents two flat-tened surfaces for articu-lation with the magnumabove, and the largemetacarpal or canon-bonebelow. By smaller articu-lations it is also connectedwith the cuboid and thecuneiform parvum. The Cuneiform Parvum, the smallestbone in the hock, is situ-ated at the inner and in-ferior part of the joint, in-clining backwards, whereit articulates with thelarge and inner smallmetatarsal bones below, the magnum above, and the medium in front.The outer surface of this bone presents a smooth surface over which one ofthe tendinous branches of the flexor metatarsi plays in a synovial sheath.
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Fig. 312.—Bones of the Hock sejiar.iteii Tibia. OsCalcia. ^A.straKaliis. ^Cuneiform Mag^num. Cuboid.* Cuneiform Medium. Small Metatarsal Bone. * Large Metatarsal Bone, DISEASES OF BONES 205 Except in very unimportant particulars the bones below the hockresemble those below the knee, and do not, therefore, require specialdescription. DISEASES OF BONES RING-BONE A ring-bone is an enlargement extending over the front, and sometimesalso over the back, of the pastern. It consists of a diffused bony excre-scence growing out of or upon the large or small pastern bone, or both.When affecting the former it is described as high ring-bone (fig. 314),when the latter, as low ring-bone (fig. 313). It is common to all classesof horses, but more especially prevalent in cart-horses and thoroughbreds.

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