Animals

Animals

Any living creature of the Kingdom Animalia constituting multi-celled organisms as well as single-celled organisms lacking chlorophyll and having the ability for spontaneous movement, such as protozoans.

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performance horse

Animals; Horses

A performance horse is a horse that is in training or has trained to compete in an equine sport. The includes but not limited to; showing, eventing, jumping, racing, western work, ...

double tree

Animals; Horses

Device that connects two single wiffletrees.

flexor tendons

Animals; Horses

Tendons located at the rear of a limb.

cross firing

Animals; Horses

A horse is cross firing when the inside rear foot hits first, and the inside front foot hits last when the horse is in the canter or lope.

potomac fever

Animals; Horses

Disease caused by a rickettsia (Ehrlichia equi), with acute projectile diarrhea, laminitis, and usually death, its means of spread from animal to animal has not been determined.

splint

Animals; Horses

Term commonly applied to inflammation of the attachment of the splint bone to the cannon; older cases of splints are identified as bony enlargements at various points along the ...