sidebone

English

Etymology

side +‎ bone

Noun

sidebone (plural sidebones)

  1. A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse.
    • 1861, John Henry Walsh, The Horse in the Stable and in the Field:
      ringbone and sidebone co-exist in the same leg, […] where the three bones are completely anchylosed

References

sidebone in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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