Pastern
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pastern-245-629674
title:
Pastern
text:
The pastern is a part of the leg of a horse between the fetlock and the top of the hoof. It incorporates the long pastern bone and the short pastern bone, which are held together by two sets of paired ligaments to form the pastern joint. Anatomically homologous to the two largest bones found in the human finger, the pastern was famously mis-defined by Samuel Johnson in his dictionary as "the knee of a horse". When a lady asked Johnson how this had happened, he gave the much-quoted reply: "Ignora
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description:
Part of the leg of a horse
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastern
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date modified:
2024-01-13T16:46:16Z
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