Meaning of navicular disease | Babel Free

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.”

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