splint-bonen.
1. Farriery.† a. = splint n. 5. Obsolete.
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1704 London Gaz. No. 4027/4 A Splint Bone in the inside of her near fore Leg.
b. One or other of the two small metacarpal bones of the foreleg of a horse, lying behind and in close contact with the cannon-bone or shank.
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1831 W. Youatt Horse vi. 64 (caption) The larger metacarpal or cannon or shank in front, and the smaller metacarpal or splent bone behind.
1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 244 The small bone called ‘splint-bone’, by veterinarians, articulated to the ‘mesocuneiform’, is the stunted metatarsal of the second toe..; the outer ‘splint-bone’, articulated to the ‘cuboides’, is the similarly stunted metatarsal of the fourth toe.
1881 Fortn. Rev. Dec. 751 But on each side of this enlarged toe there are, beneath the skin, rudimentary bones of two other toes, the so-called splint-bones.
2. Anatomy. = fibula n. 2.
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1859 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860)
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