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What is a spavin?

What is a spavin? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones.
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This affection, popularly termed bone spavin, is an exostosis of the hock joint.
For spavin or ringbone, cut the hair away and grease the part well with the ointment, rubbing it in well.
Distension of the capsular ligament of the tibial tarsal joint with synovia is commonly known as bog spavin.
Although bone spavin usually causes lameness, this may be obscured if the lesions are bilateral.
There was not a hitch in a settlement, nor a spavin in your stables, could escape him.
Like osteoarthritis in people, the cause of spavin is not very well understood.

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