capped hock

American  

noun

Veterinary Pathology.

1. any swelling, inflammatory or otherwise, on the point of the hock of horses.

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Etymology

Origin of capped hock

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

The meaning of the terms gee, haw, nigh, off, run, gallop, trot, pace, single foot, rack.The location, cause, and effect of these troubles: heaves, blind staggers, knee sprung, shoe boil, quitter, ring bone, spavin, capped hock, flat foot, hoof bound, glanders, mange, sweeny, hide bound, and thrush.The record time for a trotted and a paced mile.The meaning of "one horse power."

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Capped hock or elbow, 452. treatment for, 453.

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From its analogy to the condition of capped elbow the designation of capped hock has been applied to this condition.

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Symptoms.—A capped hock is therefore but the development of a bruise at the point of the hock, which if many times repeated may excite an inflammatory process, with all its usual external symptoms of swelling, heat, soreness, and the rest of the now-familiar phenomena.

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The capped hock, whether under the appearance of an acute, edematous swelling, or as a bloody serous collection, or as a simple serous cyst, does not give rise to any remarkable local manifestation other than such as have already passed under our survey in considering similar cases, nor will it be liable to interfere with the functions which belong to the member in question, unless it assumes very large dimensions and on each side of the tendons, as well as on the summit of the bone.

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