Spavin

[spævin]

Definition

(noun.) a swelling of the hock joint of a horse; resulting in lameness.

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Definition

(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.

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Definition

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.

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