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CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



The true carpal bones are seven in number. Six of these are placed 

 in two rows, each containhig three bones in front of the joint, while the 

 seventh, the pisiform, (Trapezium), is placed behind them, forming the 

 point of insertion for some of the muscles of the arm. It also aids iu 

 protecting the tendons running down behind the leg. 



Fig. 1. 



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CUT 9.— SHOWINC} BONKS OK TlIK KNEE. 



Bones of the Leg. — Between the knee and the fetlock are three 

 bones, the shank (cannon) and two splint bones, as shown in cut 8, page 

 03, Fig. 1. D. These form the leg, the corresponding part in man 

 being the metacarpus. The cannon bone articulates at its upper extremi- 

 ty with the lower row of the bones of the knee and below with the 

 upper pastern of the fetlock joint. It has scarcely any muscle, those 

 parts not covered by tendons, as well as the parts so covered being envel- 

 oped directly by the skin. The legbone is nearly straight, rounded in front 

 and flattened or slightly concave behind. The splint bones, slender bones 

 attached to the camiou to strengthen it, diminich to a point before they reach 



