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Equine Flashcards

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Seedy Toe

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Also called hollow wall or dystrophic ungulae

-hoof wall necrosis

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2
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Founder

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Laminitis

-often associated with LUSH green grass and high carb diets

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Bone Spavin

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Osteoarthritis of the hock

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4
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Bog spavin

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Swelling of the hock

Bog=water

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Jack spavin

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Irritation if the medial hock

Specifically he cunean tendon

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6
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Throughpin

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Effusion of the tarsal DDFT sheath

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7
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Sheared heel

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Asymmetry of the heal due to uneven weight distribution

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Rngbone

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Ostoarthritis of the distal interphalangial joint

  • high: pastern joint
  • low: coffin joint
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9
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Sidebone

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Ossification of the alar cartilage (wing bits of the coffin bone)

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10
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Osseletes

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Inflammation of the periosteum on the dorsal 3rd metacarpal surface and fetlock

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11
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Splints

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Interosseous desmitis (ligamentitis) of mc/mt 3

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12
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Stringhalt

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  • Spasmodic hyperflexion (foot touches the abdomen)

- often associated with sweet pea

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13
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Sweeny

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Supraspinatous contracture

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14
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Hyperkaleic periodic paralysis

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Genetic problem with Na+ channels

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15
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Polysaccharide storage myopathy

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Accumulation of glycogen

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16
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Club foot

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Contracture of the distal interphalangeal joint

17
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Buttress foot

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Also called pyramidal disease or extensor process disease

-excessive strain on the common digital extensor tendon

18
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Gonitis

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Arthritis of the stifle

19
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Scratches

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Chronic seborrheic dermititis

20
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Peroneus tertius rupture

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Causes leg to extend hock while flexing the stifle

21
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What is the difference between a tenotomy and a desmotomy?

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Tenotomy: cutting of tendons
Desmotomy: cutting or dissecting out ligament

22
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Upward patella fixation

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Limb locks in ridged extension—>toe drag

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