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Definition of Spavin
1. Noun. A swelling of the hock joint of a horse; resulting in lameness.
Definition of Spavin
1. n. A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones; also, the swelling itself. The resulting lameness is due to the inflammation, and not the bony tumor as popularly supposed.
Definition of Spavin
1. Noun. A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spavin
1. a disease of horses [n -S] : SPAVINED [adj]
Medical Definition of Spavin
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Spavin
Literary usage of Spavin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Horses & Stables by Frederic Wellington Fitzwygram (1911)
"Formation of spavin. 603. Liability to spavin dependent on the conformation of
... Position of spavin. 605. Importance of spavin dependent on its position. ..."
2. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1898)
"Above everything else my attention has been directed to an elucidation of the
pathology and treatment of spavin. To Professor Frohner I desire to express my ..."
3. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1893)
"PROFESSOR HOFFMANN of Stuttgart, in speaking of the pathology of spavin, says
that deep ... He attributes the pain and lameness of spavin to deep-seated ..."
4. The Law of Horses: Including the Law of Innkeepers, Veterinary Surgeons, Etc by George Henry Hewitt Oliphant, Clement Elphinstone Lloyd (1882)
"A Splint, like a Bone-spavin (a], is an excrescence or Splint, ... Lameness is
thus produced by each; by Bone- spavin nearly always, by a Splint sometimes. ..."
5. The Diseases of Animals: A Book of Brief and Popular Advice on the Care and by Nelson Slater Mayo (1920)
"BONE spavin A bone spavin is an inflammation of some of the bones forming the
... The high spavin is usually the more serious, as the joint affected is more ..."
6. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"spavin, a swelling near the joints of horses, producing lame- ness. (F.,-Teut.
... a spavin in the SPATULA, a broad-bladed knife for spreading plasters. ..."
7. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"spavin, a swelling near the joints of horses, producing lameness. (F. — Teut.
... я spavin in the leg of a horse ; ' Cot. The same as Span, ..."
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