Bifurcation at the pasterns, and the two larger pasterns to each foot.
It rapidly spreads, and involves not only the pastern-bones, but the cartilages of the foot, and spreading around the pasterns and cartilages, thus derives its name.
The pasterns first become connected together by bone instead of ligament, and thence results what is called an anchylosed or fixed joint.
The bifurcation at the pasterns, and the two larger pasterns to each foot.
The hocks are strong, low-placed, and pasterns long.
Their backward curve joins the hocks in such a manner as to give the greatest possible leverage on the long, strong, pasterns and feet below.
The shoulders long, the arms long, forearms very long, and pasterns long, but proportionate.
Pasterns of medium length, feet round (like those of the cat), and the soles hard.
Too long in the pasterns to carry weight," urged Curtis.
I thought your governor looked rather puffy about the pasterns the last time I saw him, besides being touched in the wind, and your mother has got a decided strain of the back sinews.
The other two tendons are placed behind the pasterns and are called flexors, because they flex, or bend, the pasterns and coffin bone backward.
As they grow old, horses with erect pasterns are very prone to knuckle, especially in the hind legs.
The farrier has now to "dress" the overgrown hoof to receive the new shoe; in other words, he has to form a base of support so inclined to the direction of the pasterns that in motion this surface shall be set flat upon the ground.
The foot-axis is an imaginary line passing from the fetlock joint through the long axes of the two pasterns and coffin bone.
Hard lumps, from which radiate welt-like swellings of the lymphatics, occur in glanders, and blisterlike eruptions occur around the mouth and pasterns in horsepox.
By the direction of the imaginary line passing through the long axes of the two pasterns (figs.
His pasterns were supple as an Arab four-year-old's, his muscles steel springs.
Horses that have a poor quality of tendon and weak fetlocks and pasterns should not be used for breeding purposes.
The tendency toward this disease probably depends on such peculiarities of conformation as narrow, weak, high heels, long pasterns and too long a toe.
The bones below the hock should be flat, the tendons well developed and standing out from the bone, the feet and pasterns as in front.
It’s disgusting, the want of opportunity; even at Pasterns I could scarcely get a walk with you.
There were other people who were always wanting her to tell them about Pasterns and the manner of life there and the parties; but if there was one thing Lady Barb disliked more than another it was describing Pasterns.
The cowry shell is, with the same object, tied round the neck or pasterns of a valued horse, or on a cow or buffalo.
As an antidote to the Evil Eye blue beads are specially valued, and are hung round the necks and pasterns of horses and other valuable animals.
The tan on cheeks and over eyes and on feet and pasterns should be rich and bright and clearly defined, and the feathering on forelegs and thighs should also be tan.
As the legs approach a vertical position the pasterns are gradually lowered, and act as springs to break the force of the concussion until they are bent nearly at right angles with the legs.
The pasterns gradually rise as the legs decline backwards until the right fore foot has left the ground and the last propelling force is being exercised by the left hind foot; which accomplished, the animal is in mid air.
The ankles or pasterns should be short, straight, and strong.
FORE-LEGS--Perfectly straight, set well into the shoulders, with strongpasterns and toes set well up and close together.
The hocks should be well let down, so that the leg is long and muscular from the loins to the point of the hock, which makes the pasterns short, but these should not be so short as those of the fore-legs.
THE FORE-LEGS should be straight and muscular, neither in nor out at elbows, with a fair amount of bone; the forearm somewhat fleshy, the pasterns showing flexibility without weakness.
The pasterns gradually rise as the legs pass the vertical until the right fore foot has left the ground and the last propelling force is being exercised by the left hind foot; which accomplished, the animal is in mid air.
After the feet strike the ground and the legs approach a vertical position the pasterns are gradually lowered, and act as springs to break the force of the concussion until they are sometimes bent to a right angle with the legs.
Short, upright, pasterns receive greater concussion during fast travel on hard roads than do the longer more sloping and well formed extremities.
The condition occurs in young animals that are over-driven in livery service or other similar exhausting work, where they become so weary that serious injury is done these parts by striking the pasterns with the feet--interfering.
The joint attaching the fore-pasterns and the forearm.
Legs should be straight and placed squarely under shoulder, having plenty of bone without clumsiness, strong pasterns well stood upon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pasterns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
