. Elements of hippology. Horses. ELEMENTS OF HIPPOLOGY. 81 CHAPTER VI. UPPER PASTERN JOI NT THE FRONT LEG. Beginning at the top, the bones of the front leg are named as follows: shoulder-blade (scapula), arm-bone (humerus), forearm-bone* (radius), the bones of the knee, cannon- bone (Figure 55), the splint- bones, of which there are two, one each side of the cannon-bone (A, Figure 59), the sesamoids, upper and lower pastern-bones, navic- ular-bone, and coffin-bone (Figure 56). The joints are the shoul- der-joint, the elbow-joint, the knee, the fetlock-joint, the lower pastern-joint, and the na
. Elements of hippology. Horses. ELEMENTS OF HIPPOLOGY. 81 CHAPTER VI. UPPER PASTERN JOI NT THE FRONT LEG. Beginning at the top, the bones of the front leg are named as follows: shoulder-blade (scapula), arm-bone (humerus), forearm-bone* (radius), the bones of the knee, cannon- bone (Figure 55), the splint- bones, of which there are two, one each side of the cannon-bone (A, Figure 59), the sesamoids, upper and lower pastern-bones, navic- ular-bone, and coffin-bone (Figure 56). The joints are the shoul- der-joint, the elbow-joint, the knee, the fetlock-joint, the lower pastern-joint, and the navicular-joint. The external nomencla- ture of this region is shown in Figure 57. The shoulder-blade, which has no bony connection—no articulation—with the trunk, is bound to it by muscles alone. The horse has no collar-bone. Below, it articulates with the. LOWER PASTER! JOINT NAVICULAR BONE COFFIN BONE Figure 56.—Nomenclature of the Bones of the Foot. *The ulna, the upper portion of the forearm-bone, reaching from just below the elbow-joint to the point of the elbow, a separate bone in the , becomes completely united to the forearm-bone in the adult Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Marshall, Francis C. (Francis Cutler), b. 1867; United States Military Academy. Dept. of Tactics. Kansas City : Hudson Press
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