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The Hoof
Joints
100
Bones that make up the human hand
What is Metacarpal Bones?
100
Bones that make up the human foot.
What is Metatarsal Bones?
100
Largest sesamoid bone in the body.
What is knee cap or Patella?
100
Dorsally the hoof covers, protects and supports this bone.
What is Coffin Bone or P3?
100
Large joint in the middle of the front limb.
What is knee joint?
200
Largest long bone in horses body.
What is the Femur?
200
Small bones that support the cannon bone.
What is Splint Bones?
200
The bottom of the hoof.
What is the sole?
200
Foul odor, Large cracks, Loose shoes and Sole injuries.
What is to look for when examining a hoof?
200
Area between the ankle and the hoof.
What is Pastern Joint?
300
Provides major supporst for the body.
What is Cannon Bone or Third Metacarpal?
300
2nd and 4th metacarpal/metatarsal bones.
What is Splint bones?
300
Soft triangular portion of the bottom of the hoof.
What is The Frog?
300
Walls of hoof originate from here at the upper, almost circular limit of the hoof capsule.
What is Coronet or Coronary Band?
300
Area between the cannon bone and P1.
What is Fetlock Joint?
400
Articulates closely with the distal phalanx.
What is the Navicular Bone?
400
Most distal bone of the forelimb and lies completely within the hoof wall.
What is Coffin Bone or Distal Phalanx?
400
Heels on the palmar/plantar portion of the hoof walls bend inward following the external surface of collateral grooves to form this.
What is the Bars?
400
Frog and collateral grooves.
What is bottom of the hoof?
400
Large joint in the middle of the hind limb.
What is hock?
500
Consists of 7-8 bones placed in two rows to form three joints in the forelimb.
What is Carpus?
500
Completely fused with the tibia in most horses.
What is the Fibula?
500
With the Femur this forms the ball and socket hip joint.
What is the Acetabulum?
500
Just below coronet, the walls are covered by this cornified opaque material, at the palmar/plantar portion of the hoof it is thicker and more rubbery.
What is the Periople?
500
Joint between the hip and the hock. Anatomical equivalent to the human knee.
What is the stifle?