Spavin
[spævin]
解释:
(n.) A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones; also, the swelling itself. The resulting lameness is due to the inflammation, and not the bony tumor as popularly supposed.
坎迪编辑
解释:
n. a disease of horses occurring under two different forms—bog-spavin in which the hock-joint is distended with dark-coloured synovia or joint-oil and bone-spavin in which a bony enlargement occurs towards the inside of the hock at the head of the shank-bone or between some of the small bones of the hock.—adj. Spav′ined affected with spavin.
校对:马特