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CANON INTERNE [4 records]

Record 1 2011-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Husbandry
  • Animal Diseases
DEF

Osteitis or osteo-arthritis of upper end of canon and inner side of hock.

OBS

A large spavin is called a jack, and a small is a blind or occult spavin. The latter may present no palpable or radiographic sign.

Key term(s)
  • bone spavine

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élevage des chevaux
  • Maladies des animaux
DEF

Ostéite ou ostéo-arthrite au sommet interne du canon et à la face interne du jarret.

OBS

Terme connexe : jarde.

PHR

Éparvin cailleux.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cría de ganado caballar
  • Enfermedades de los animales
OBS

El que llega a osificarse.

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Record 2 2006-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cannons (Aircraft)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Canons (aéronefs)
OBS

révolver : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l’orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2006).

Key term(s)
  • canon interne monotube type révolver

Spanish

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Record 3 2005-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Husbandry
  • Animal Anatomy
DEF

Horny, irregular growths found on the inside of the legs.

CONT

On the forelegs, they are just above the knees. On the hind legs, they are just below the hocks. No two horses have been found to have the same chestnuts and so they may be used for identification. Also called "night eyes."

CONT

Another organ in process of disappearance is that piece of horn inside the fore-arm, where it is termed the chestnut, and that inside the hock, where it is termed the castor; it corresponds to the finger-nail of the thumb of our hand, and of the foot of the five-toed ancestor of the horse.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élevage des chevaux
  • Anatomie animale
DEF

Petite plaque de corne située, chez le cheval, à la partie inférieure et interne de l'avant-bras et, sur les membres postérieurs, à la partie supérieure et interne du canon.

CONT

[...] la châtaigne [...] serait un vestige de doigt atrophié.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cría de ganado caballar
  • Anatomía animal
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Record 4 1992-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cannons (Aircraft)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Canons (aéronefs)

Spanish

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