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Title: The Horse : its treatment in health and disease, with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London : Gresham
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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scles attached thereto, as well as a broad elastic ligament runningthrough the centre of its entire length. In front it supjDorts the head,where it concurs to form the poll, and lower down is united to the throat.Behind, the neck joins on to the shoulders, the withers, and the breast.The superior arched border constitutes the cervical crest (fig. 1), the curveof which varies in different races of horses, and in different members of thesame race. In stallions it is specially marked in all breeds. UPPER ASPECT OF THE BODY—TOP-LINE 13 The inferior border of the neck is rounded, and encloses the windpipe ortrachea (fig. 5). A little higher, on the side, may be noticed a longitudinalgroove (fig. 2) running from the throat downward. This is the channelof the neck or cervical groove, along which runs the jugular vein, and,deeper still, the carotid artery. The Withers.—The withers comprise that prominent portion ofthe spine placed between the neck and the back, and supported on either / 3
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1 Poll. Cheek.Groove.^^ Canon.« Buttock. Fig. 9.— Exterior of the Horse; Three-quarter Back View Ear. 5 Eyebrow. ^ Eye. Nose. Nostril. Upper Lip. • Lower Lip.1= Neck. 15 Crest. «Withers. i Back. 8 Loins. ^ Croup. = Tail. =3 Shoulder. =•■ Shoulder Point. =« Upper Arm. =^9 Forearm. 3o chestnut. 33 Fetlock-joint. ^ Pastern. ^5 Coronet. 36 Foot. 38 Chest. 39 Abdomen. « Haunch. ■> Stifle. «« Leg or Gaskin. 52 Chestnut. *3 Canon. ^ Fetlock-joint. « Point of Buttock. « Thigh. * Point of Hock. * Tendo AohUles or Ham-string^ Coronet. ^~ Foot. 12 Chin.22 Cervical 31 Knee. *o Flank. « Hock.^ Pastern. side by the upper extremity of the shoulders. It is formed by the longprojecting spines of the dorsal vertebras, numbering from the second tothe sixth, or seventh, and the muscles in connection with them. Fromthis point the height of the horse is taken, and, as will be seen later 14 THE EXTERIOR OF THE HORSE on, it is a part to which great importance is attached in the matter o

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