sidebone
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
sidebone (plural sidebones)
- 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[edit]
“sidebone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.