. The comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals. Horses; Veterinary anatomy. ARTICULATIONS OF TEE ANTERIOR LIMBS. 211 its inferior faee by the skiu of the interdigital epace. Ite upper face is in coDtact with aa adipoee cushion. In the Ox, the external anterior lateral ligament, wide and expanding, \% almost eatireiy covered by the long branch of the proper extensor of the digit, to which it is intimately adherent. The ligament has a much more complicated character than that of the Sheep. It is formed of fibres intercrossed on the median line, and divided at its extremities
. The comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals. Horses; Veterinary anatomy. ARTICULATIONS OF TEE ANTERIOR LIMBS. 211 its inferior faee by the skiu of the interdigital epace. Ite upper face is in coDtact with aa adipoee cushion. In the Ox, the external anterior lateral ligament, wide and expanding, \% almost eatireiy covered by the long branch of the proper extensor of the digit, to which it is intimately adherent. The ligament has a much more complicated character than that of the Sheep. It is formed of fibres intercrossed on the median line, and divided at its extremities into two fasciculi: a superior passes over the perforans tendon, to which it serves as a restrain- ing band, and is fixed to the outside of the inferior extremity of tin; first phalanx, after con- tracting very close adhesions with a strong fibrous web which descends from the posterior metac<irpal region, and which will be more fully noticed when dtscribing the muscles; an inferior, shorter than the preceding, attached to the internal extremity of the navicular bone and the internal face of the third phalanx, becoming confounded with tiie perforans tendon, the plantar cushion, and the dermis of the keratogenous membrane. Fig. 00° JO i L0S61TUMNAL AND VERTICAL SKCTION OF THE DIGITAL REGION IN THE HORSE, SHOWING THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE ARTICULAR AND TENDI- NOUS SYNOVIAL APPARATUS. 1, First phalanx; 2, second phalanx; 3, third pha- lanx ; 4, semilunar sinus of ditto ; 5. navicular bone; 6, tendon of the anterior extensor of the phalanges; 7, its insertion into third phalanx ; 8, tendon of the pcrforatus ; 9, ditto perforans ; 10, its insertion into the third phalanx ; 1], inferior sesamoid ligaments; 12, cul-de-sac of the first synovial interphalange.^il capsule; 13, ditto of second ; 14, inferior cul-de-sac of the sesamoid bursa; 15, superior ditto of navicular bursa ; 16, inferior ditto of same ; 17, section of the coronary cushion; 18, ditto of plantar cush
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