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What is a quittor?

What is a quittor? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone.
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We have already remarked that this is a point of interest to be remembered in connection with the operation for quittor.
With the escape of the pus at the coronet the quittor is fully formed.
Spavin, ringbone, splints, quittor and many other anomalous conditions may all be observed from certain proper angles.
Prior to the development of a quittor there is always swelling at the coronet, accompanied with heat and pain.
It is the wound remaining after the slough which we may really regard as a quittor.
It may thus occur as a sequel to quittor, complicated sand-crack, suppurating corn, and punctured wounds of the feet.

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