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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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nected withthese are various tendons, ligaments, fibroustissue, and cartilages, the whole of whichare invested by a highly vascular and sen-sitive covering of modified skin, and out-wardly protected by a horny envelope, orhuge nail, to which the term hoof has beenapplied. 8. THE POSTERIOR OR HIND LIMB The Quarter.—In considering the re-gions of the hind limb, it will be convenient,if not anatomically exact, to refer to thatdivision of the horse commonly spoken of asthe quarter. This region comprises allthose parts extending from the loin andflank in front to the Ijuttock behind. Itembraces within its scoj^e the croup, thehaunch, the thigh, the buttock, and thestifle. The Thigh.—This is the most massiveand muscular of the several regions of theextremities. The thigh commences above,at the lower border of the croup, and extendsdownward as for as the stifle. In front itis limited bv the flank, while behind it isin relation with the buttock. The ossiflc base of the thigh is the femur,
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Fig. 14.—Eack View of Horse Croup. 39 Abdomen. •• Flank. 3 Buttock. « Leg or Gaskin. « Hock.» Point of Hock. =1 Tendo Achilles or Ham-string. ^^ Canon. ^* Fetlock- joint. ^^ Pastern. ^ Coronet. ^ Foot. or thigh-bone. The Buttock.—The buttock is the pos-terior fleshy part of the quarter extending from the root of the tail down-ward to a little distance below the stifle-joint. There is no anatomicalboundary by which its anterior limits can be fixed. In this connectionthe division is an arbitrary one. It embraces portions of the croup, thethigh, and the leg or gaskin. The point of the buttock (fig. l) is formedby a bony projection (Ischial tuberosity) below the root of the tail. THE POSTERIOR OR HIND LIMB 23 the hock-joint. Behind, it is bordered The Stifle (fig. l).—The stifle comprehends that angular prominencesituated in front of the limb immediately beneath the Hank. At thispoint the femur, or thigh-bone, articulates with the tibia, or leg-bone, andthe i^a^e^^a, or knee-

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