单词 | suffraginous |
释义 | † suffraginousadj. Obsolete. 1. Designating the hock or the pastern of a quadruped; affected with disease of the hock or pastern. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > relating to limbs > of the hock suffraginous1646 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. i. 106 The bought of the fore-legs [in the elephant] not directly backward,..the hough or suffraginous flexure behinde rather outward. View more context for this quotation 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Suffraginous, that is diseased in the houghes or pasterns. 2. Designating the large pastern bone (proximal phalanx) of the horse. ΚΠ 1877 Vet. Jrnl. & Ann. Compar. Pathol. 5 336 The original lameness..proved to be due to ulceration of the articular surfaces of the metacarpal and suffraginous bone. 1894 D. Magner Facts for Horse Owners Plate XI (caption) Attaching the glenoidal fibro-cartilage to the suffraginous bone. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019). < adj.1646 |
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