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RINGBONE 



Is a bony tumor or bony deposit around the pastern 

 joint or coffin joint, or both. It is of two kinds — true 

 and false. The latter, as a rule, is almost harmless. True 



Fig. 86. High Ringbone. 



ringbone is of two kinds— high and low. They are not 

 the cause but the result of disease, especially inflamma- 

 tion of the bones and synovial membranes, 



