| 单词 | pastern bone | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaspastern bone   pastern bone  n. see sense  3. pastern bone  3.  In full  pastern bone. Either of the two phalangeal bones in the foot of a horse between the cannon bone and the coffin bone, esp. the longer one: 		 (a) (more fully  long pastern bone or  great pastern bone) the proximal phalanx;		 (b) (more fully  short pastern bone or  little pastern bone) the middle phalanx. Also: a corresponding bone in certain other mammals. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > 			[noun]		 > foot or spec. foot > pastern > bone or joint in pastle1552 pastern1601 cronet1610 pastern joint1682 coronet1833 coronary1843 1601    P. Holland tr.  Pliny Hist. World I.  xi. xlvi. 351  				The Once..hath that which somewhat resembleth a pasterne bone [L. talo, Fr. talon]. 1656    T. Blount Glossographia  				Pastern (talus), the ankle or huckle-bone of a Beasts foot. 1726    E. Fenton in  A. Pope et al.  tr.  Homer Odyssey V.  xx. 367  				Where to the pastern-bone..The well-horn'd foot indissolubly join'd. 1766    Compl. Farmer at Shoeing  				Thus the cannon-bone presses on the pastern, this on the coronary, the coronary upon the coffin, or foot-bone. 1840    D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports §633  				The lesser pastern or coronary bone..receives the great pastern below. 1855    L. Holden Human Osteol. 170  				The three joints of this finger answer to those called ‘great pastern bone’, ‘little pastern bone’, and ‘coffin bone’ in the horse. 1913    J. G. Frazer Golden Bough: Balder the Beautiful I. i. 17  				The pastern-bone of a hare is an infallible remedy for colic. 1997    M. A. Belknap Equine Dict. 311/2  				Pastern joint, the joint..between the long and short pastern bones. < as lemmas  | 
	
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