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- noun An inflammation of the hoof cartilage of horses and other solid-hoofed animals, characterized by degeneration of hoof tissue, formation of a slough, and fistulous sores.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
quitter .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Far.) A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone.
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- noun A chronic
abscess , orfistula of thecoronet , in a horse's foot, resulting frominflammation of the tissues investing thecoffin bone .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When dealing with sinuous wounds of the foot, another favourite mode of applying dressings is by means of the syringe, and no better instrument for all cases can be found than that known as a quittor syringe (Fig. 56).
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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For convenience of consideration quittors may be divided into four classes, as suggested by Girard: (1) Cutaneous quittor, which is known also as simple quittor, skin quittor, and carbuncle of the coronet; (2) tendinous quittor; (3) subhorny quittor; and (4) cartilaginous quittor.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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We believe that -- in this country, at any rate -- the word 'quittor' is usually held to indicate one or other of the two latter conditions, and probably the last of these; and that the two first are held of small account, or hardly of sufficient gravity to allow of the word 'quittor' being applied to them.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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In all probability it is the condition generally understood when the word 'quittor' is used by one practitioner to the other.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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Complications in coronitis in laminitis in pricked foot in sand-crack in simple or cutaneous quittor in sub-horny quittor
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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As a result of this, we may have the starting-point of suppurating corn, or necrosis of the lateral cartilage -- in other words, cartilaginous quittor.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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Unequal distribution of weight, the result of unskilled shoeing, or any other condition that may cause the foot to become unbalanced, using the foot rasp too freely, and such diseases as quittor, corns and contracted quarters subject the animal to this form of unsoundness.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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-- This form of quittor has its origin more often than not in contusions, punctures, or wounds of the region severe enough to cause death of a small portion of the tissues.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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Later, the abscess -- for abscess it is -- discharges its contents, the opening is explored, and we find that in extent it is not confined to the coronary region, but that it is deep enough to constitute a true sub-horny quittor.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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-- In the case of simple or cutaneous quittor, no alteration in the shoeing is necessary.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
sionnach commented on the word quittor
An inflammation of the hoof cartilage of horses and other solid-hoofed animals, characterized by degeneration of hoof tissue, formation of a slough, and fistulous sores.
October 19, 2008