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cannon bone

noun

Zoology.
  1. the greatly developed middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of hoofed quadruped mammals, extending from the hock to the fetlock.


cannon bone

noun

  1. a bone in the legs of horses and other hoofed animals consisting of greatly elongated fused metatarsals or metacarpals
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of cannon bone1

1825–35; cannon in obsolete sense “tube”
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Example Sentences

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O’Brien said the initial diagnosis was a non-displaced condylar fracture and described it as a small crack in the cannon bone.

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It’s a repetitive strain injury that results in a fracture to the cannon bone above the fetlock due to large loads transmitted during high-speed workouts.

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Go For Wand was leading by a head at the sixteenth pole when she suffered an open fracture to her right cannon bone.

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The race lost luster Thursday when Omaha Beach pulled out with a problem in the right rear ankle that could have foreshadowed a cannon bone fracture.

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“Many important lesions such as those in Mongolian Groom’s hind cannon bones are not easy to find,” according to the report.

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