fetlock's Usage Examples:

agalla, a wind-gall or puffy distension of the synovial bursa on the fetlock joint of a horse, is derived from the Lat.

tippelskirchi the frontal horn is often developed in the bulls, but the legs are frequently spotted to the fetlocks.

In colour the sides of the face are puce, and the neck and most of the body purplish, but the buttocks and upper part of both fore and hind limbs are transversely barred with black and white, while their lower portion is mainly white with black fetlock-rings, and in the front pair a vertical black stripe on the anterior surface.

"The inside of the ears and the muzzle are black, and the feet are black to the fetlock joint.

The carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist of man, is commonly called the " knee " of the horse, the joint between the metacarpal and the first phalanx the " fetlock," that between the first and second phalanges the " pastern," and that between the second and third phalanges the " coffin joint.

This is called in veterinary anatomy the " suspensory ligament of the sesamoids," or of the " fetlock " (io in fig.

As another casualty of a pulled fetlock he was happy to stay but a lack of hotel rooms caused some anxiety.

18, Fatty cushion of fetlock.

fetlock joint at 90° to the 1° beam.

A very ancient British breed is the black Pembroke; and when this breed tends to albinism, the ears and muzzle, and more rarely the fetlocks, remain completely black, or very dark grey, although the colour elsewhere is whitish, more or less flecked and blotched with pale grey.

I o, Suspensory ligament of fetlock.

Jim accepted it as a mere detail, and at his command the attendants gave his coat a good rubbing, combed his mane and tail, and washed his hoofs and fetlocks.

The hackney should also possess good hock action, as distinguished from mere fetlock action, the propelling power depending upon the efficiency of the former.

Synonyms:

horse"s foot, fetlock joint, articulation, joint, articulatio,

Antonyms:

unshared, segregated, distributive, divided, separate,