cannon bone

How To Use cannon bone In A Sentence

• The third and fourth metacarpals (front limbs) and metatarsals (hind limbs) are fused to form an elongated cannon bone (a condition also seen in antilocaprids and bovids).
• Mirage, suffering a fracture to his cannon bone and fetlock joint, was euthanized.
• They have hind limbs that are at least four times as long as their front legs, and the foot bones are often fused into a single long cannon bone, which gives the animal greater leverage for jumping.
• Starting at the ground surface of the foot, an imaginary dot is placed on the toe, coronary band, fetlock, top of cannon bone, carpus, top of carpus and top of forearm.
• Even stranger, while the hindfeet have a cannon bone, the third and fourth metacarpals of the forefeet are either unfused or only partially fused.
• Then his fluent stride was halted when he broke the cannon bone in his right foreleg.
• -- A splint is a bony enlargement situated along the line of articulation between the splint and cannon bones (Fig. 34). Common Diseases of Farm Animals
• Miss Potential, who suffered a broken cannon bone last year, crossed the line last, and was found to be lame in the left foreleg.
• The third and fourth metacarpals (front limbs) and metatarsals (hind limbs) are fused to form an elongated cannon bone (a condition also seen in antilocaprids and bovids).
• Even stranger, while the hindfeet have a cannon bone, the third and fourth metacarpals of the forefeet are either unfused or only partially fused.