See: Windpuff.... ↪ Read more

[Latin]: A network of nerves or blood vessels.... ↪ Read more

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A race horse shoer, specifically a shoer of "flat track" or Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse running horses.... ↪ Read more

The sensitive, rubbery structure situated above the frog within the hoof. Because the word "plantar" implies the hind foot, and the cushions are common to all four hooves, they are sometimes referred to as digital cushions.... ↪ Read more

[from the Latin planta, the sole of the human foot]: The back side of the horse's hind leg.... ↪ Read more

(1) A keg shoe with no calks or special features. Usually creased just through the nail holes. (2) A handmade shoe without any special features, calks, fullering, or creasing.... ↪ Read more

Two imaginary lines running the entire height of the dorsal hoof wall, which are anterior points of weight-bearing. A farrier's guideline to help determine the amount of roll needed for a rolled toe. Used in Duckett's method of hoof balance.... ↪ Read more

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The study of how the body functions.... ↪ Read more

Brand of keg shoes from 1882 through 1962.... ↪ Read more

Any of the major bones in a digit. The plural "phalanxes" is used only for the military (non-anatomic) meaning of this word. The plural phalanges is used in anatomy.... ↪ Read more