Identifier: horseitstreatm05axej (find matches)
Title: The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London, Gresham Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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um,the largest of thethree, is that portionwhich unites with thesacrum above, withthe acetabulum orfemoral joint l)elow,and outwardly formstlie point (if thehip. The ischiumis that portion which,on leaving the hip-joint, which it assistsin forming, passesbackward to the pointof the buttock, andinward to join itsfellow on the oppositeside, thus contribut-ing to the floor of thepelvis, and to the for-mation of a large opening there—the obturator foramen. The pubis is the smallest of the three bones entering into the forma-tion of the coxa. It is situated in front of the floor of the pelvis,which, together with the foramen just referred to, it concurs in forming.With the ilium and ischium it also joins in making up the acetabulumor cup-like cavity into which the head of the femur fits to form thenip-joint. The two pubic bones unite on the floor of the pelvis to form a seam,or, as it is termed, the symi:)hysis pubis. The cavity of the pelvis is nuich larger at the front or inlet than at
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Kin. 2y.5.- Pelvis and Saciuni (Infui-ior Asjiect)1 Anterior Articular Body of Sacrum. ^ Posterior Spinous Process of Ilium.■^ Crista of Ilium. * Anterior Spinous Process of Ilium. ^ Neck of Ilium.^ Acetabulum. ^ Obturator Foramen. ^ Lateral Ischiatic Notch. ® IschiatitArch. 1 Tuberosity of I.^chium. Coccygeal Extremity of Sacrum. ^Sub-sacral Foramina. ^ Anterior Articvdar Process of Sacrum. THE FOUH LIMB 193 the outlet behind. The pelvic ciivity of the mare is hirger than that ofthe horse in every direction, but especially from side to side. The floor ofthe female pelvis is distinctly wider than that of the male animal. THE FORE LIMB The fore extremity is made up of twenty bones: the scapula, humerus,radius, and ulna above the knee; the scaphoid, lunar, cuneiform, pisiform,trapezoid, os magnum, unciform inthe knee; and the large and twosmall metacarpal bones, two sesa-moid bones, the os suflraginis, oscoronse, os naviculare, and os pedisbelow the knee. Scapula (figs. 296, 297).—

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