. The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management . erior Pastern Joint. * Os Coronre or Second Phalanx. > Navicular Bone. » Pedal Joint. OsPedis or Third Phalanx. 198 HEALTH AND DISEASE side, is a roughened prominence into which the tendon of its extensormuscle is inserted. At the back part of the upper end there is a roughenedpatch for the attachment of the suspensory and check ligaments. Thelower extremity is rounded from before to behind, and divided by aprominent ridge into two nearly equal parts or condyles. The whole of this e
. The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management . erior Pastern Joint. * Os Coronre or Second Phalanx. > Navicular Bone. » Pedal Joint. OsPedis or Third Phalanx. 198 HEALTH AND DISEASE side, is a roughened prominence into which the tendon of its extensormuscle is inserted. At the back part of the upper end there is a roughenedpatch for the attachment of the suspensory and check ligaments. Thelower extremity is rounded from before to behind, and divided by aprominent ridge into two nearly equal parts or condyles. The whole of this end is covered with cartilage, andarticulates with a corresponding surfaceformed by the upper extremity of the ossuftVaginis, or large pastern bone, and thetwo small sesamoid bones behind. Os Suffraginis, Large Pastern, or First Phalanx (fig. 304).—The large pas-tern is a short stout bone placed betweenthe small pastern below and the fetlockjoint above. Its superior extremity islarger than the inferior, and presents twoshallow depressions separated by a groove,into which the central rids^e and two con-. Fig. 303.—Metacarpal Bones (PosteriorView) Outer Small Metacarpal Bone. -InnerSmall Metacarpal Bone. ^ Large Metacar-pal Bone. ^ Nutritive Foramen. ^ Ar-ticular Condyles. ^ Intervening Ridge.
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