Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bony growth on the fetlock, pastern, or coffin bone of a horse's foot, usually causing lameness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In farriery, a bony callus or exostosis, the result of inflammation, on one or both pastern-bones of a horse, which sometimes extends to the interphalangeal joints and causes immobility and lameness.
- noun The disease or disordered condition in horses which is caused by ring-bone: as, a horse affected by ring-bone and spavin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Far.) A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter between or on the small pastern and the great pastern bones.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
osteoarthritis affecting any of severalbones of ahorse 'sfoot
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Examples
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The periostitis has been overlooked; any chance that might have existed for preventing its advance to the chronic stage has been lost; the osseous formation is established; the ringbone is a fixed fact, and the indications are urgent and pressing.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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A ringbone is the growth of a bony tumor on the ankle.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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High ringbone occurs when calcification accumulates where the long pastern bone, or P1, and the short pastern bone, P2, meet.
TheHorse.com News 2009
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It is a misnomer, in a sense, and the veterinarian is frequently obliged to spend considerable time with his clients in order to convince them that a spherodial exostosis of the proximal phalanx, in certain cases, is in reality "ringbone," even though there exists no exostosis which completely encircles the affected bone.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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For spavin or ringbone, cut the hair away and grease the part well with the ointment, rubbing it in well.
One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed C. A. Bogardus
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In _articular_ ringbone as soon as there is developed an exostosis, it occupies a position on the dorsal (anterior) part of the articulation and extends around the sides of the joint.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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If this does not remove it all, apply the ringbone and spavin medicine, this will remove it all.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young
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Before there is evidence of an exostosis, diagnosis of ringbone is not easy, for it is then a problem of detecting the presence of a ligamentous sprain, periostitis, or osteitis.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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The above is recommended in outside callous, such as spavin, ringbone, curbs, windgalls, etc. etc.
The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses P. R. Kincaid
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Such are: Ringbone, especially that form of ringbone known as 'low'; bony deposits on the pedal bone, either on its laminal or plantar surface, or even changes in the navicular bursa.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
hernesheir commented on the word ringbone
(n): in horses, a bony growth running round the pastern that is a cause of lameness.
January 15, 2009