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Meaning of navicular disease | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

An inflammation, often rheumatic, of the navicular bone in horses.

uncountable

Examples

“Such maladies as osteoarthritis of various joints (spavin in the hocks, ringbone in the pasterns, osselets in the fetlocks, navicular disease in the heels of the forefeet) are very common, as is chronic lower back soreness (coldback) in the lumbar, sacral, and thoracic regions.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

naviculectomy naviculoid Navid Navidad navie Navier-Stokes equation

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