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单词 suffraginous
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suffraginousadj.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin suffrāginōsus.
Etymology: < classical Latin suffrāginōsus (of horses) suffering from inflammation of the hock < suffrāgin- , suffrāgō suffrago n. + -ōsus -ous suffix.With sense 2 compare scientific Latin os suffraginis (1857 or earlier).
Obsolete.
1. Designating the hock or the pastern of a quadruped; affected with disease of the hock or pastern.
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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.
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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).
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