Veterinary notes for horse owners : a manual of horse medicine and surgery . Fig. 103.—Extreme direct flexion of fetlock Fig. 104.—Long-toed shoe. 18- 276 DISEASES OF BONE. Sidebones. NATURE.—Sidebones is the term used to express an ossifiedcondition of the lateral cartilages. The ossification may be partialor complete, and may affect both cartilages, or only one. Thelateral cartilages are plates of cartilage mixed with fibrous tissuewhich, on each side, are attached ito and placed above the wingsof the pedal bone. We may look upon them as cartilaginous andfibrous prolongations, above
Veterinary notes for horse owners : a manual of horse medicine and surgery . Fig. 103.—Extreme direct flexion of fetlock Fig. 104.—Long-toed shoe. 18- 276 DISEASES OF BONE. Sidebones. NATURE.—Sidebones is the term used to express an ossifiedcondition of the lateral cartilages. The ossification may be partialor complete, and may affect both cartilages, or only one. Thelateral cartilages are plates of cartilage mixed with fibrous tissuewhich, on each side, are attached ito and placed above the wingsof the pedal bone. We may look upon them as cartilaginous andfibrous prolongations, above and to the rear, of the wings of thepedal bone. Fig. 105 gives us a representation of a pedal bonefrom which the lateral cartilages have been removed; and Fig. 106,that of the same pedal bone with these cartilages intact. In , which is a transverse and vertical section of a horses foot, thelateral cartilages can be seen as white curves. Each cartilagein an ordinary saddle-horse is about 3 inches long, J inch inthickness, and is about If inches high at the end of the wing ofthe pedal bone, behind which it project
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