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The porous condition of the bone, which is here shown, is a result of a rarefying or rarefactive ostitis.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton

We get, therefore, in many cases, a condition of rarefactive ostitis occurring side by side with a slowly progressive caries within the bone, while outside is occurring an osteoplastic periostitis.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton

When the foot has been subjected to laminitis of some weeks' duration, the same condition is also met with, being at the same time associated with rarefactive osteoplastic ostitis, conditions which we shall shortly describe.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton

The erosion of the cartilage on its central ridge is most marked, and the porous appearance of the bone thus uncovered points to the existence within it of a rarefactive ostitis.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton

Changes in the Bone.—The changes occurring in the bone are essentially those of a rarefactive ostitis.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton