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(c) The laminar corium (sensitive laminae) (fig. 22) is attached to 

 the wall surface of the third phalanx and to the lower part of its 

 cartilages. It bears numerous delicate folds or laminae which 



Fig. 24.— Digit of horse, showing surface relations of bones 

 and joints. The cartilage is largely exposed, a, First 

 phalanx; 6, second phalanx; c, third phalanx; d, cartilage; 

 e, distal sesamoid or navicular bone; /, pastern joint; g, 

 coffin joint; h', cut edge of wall of hoof (h); i, laminar 

 corium. (AfterElIenbergerinlveisering's Atlas.) (From 

 Sisson's Anatomy of the Domestic Animals; copyright, 

 W. B. Saunders Co.) 



interleave with the horny laminae of the wall and bars. They (the 

 laminae of the corium) supply nourishment to the horny laminae 

 and to the horn of the white line. By their intimate union with the 



