spavin
IPA: spˈævɪn
noun
- A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones.
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Examples of "spavin" in Sentences
- A spavin is one of the unsoundnesses of horses that may be transmitted to the offspring.
- The above is recommended in outside callous, such as spavin, ringbone, curbs, windgalls, etc. etc.
- -- A spavin is a chronic inflammation of the articular faces of the hock bones, ligaments and synovial membranes.
- Horses three or four years of age if given work that favors hock strain, such as excavating cellars, may develop a spavin.
- A bony enlargement does not always accompany the lameness, and a spavin may be present without the horse going noticeably lame.
- This condition involves the heavy gluteal muscles and may occur as a complication of azoturia, or a lameness of the hind limb that is usually due to a spavin.
- The diseases which are found to be hereditary in horses are scrofula, rheumatism, rickets, chronic cough, roaring, ophthalmia or inflammation of the eye, -- grease or scratches, bone spavin, curb, &c.
- Just last Wednesday evening I was seeing to a horse over on Atlantic—a case of bog spavin—and as chance would have it, a fire broke out in one of the warehouses, and there he was, already on the scene, furiously scribbling notes.
- Take of cantharides 2 oz., strong mercurial ointment 4 oz., oil of turpentine 4 oz., iodine 3 oz., mix all with a sufficiency of lard to make a thin ointment; apply to the spavin only once a day until it bursts; then oil it with sweet oil until healed.
- Eesa and Girhi, who are all infantry: a village seldom contains more than six or eight, and the lowest value would be ten cows or twenty Tobes. 27 Careful of his beast when at rest, the Somali Bedouin in the saddle is rough and cruel: whatever beauty the animal may possess in youth, completely disappears before the fifth year, and few are without spavin, or sprained back-sinews.
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