navicular disease

noun

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

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nounnavicular disease (uncountable)
  1. uncountableAn inflammation, often rheumatic, of the navicular bone in horses.

    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.

    1992, Barbara T. Engel, Margaret L. Galloway, Therapeutic Riding Programs
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