1240 CrCLOPEDIA OF LIVR STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DO OR. 



Astragalus — The largest bono of the hock-joint, lying below the os 

 calcis. 



Astringent — That which causes contraction of the bowels or vital struc« 

 tures. Astringents are medicines which suppress discharges, as from 

 the bowels, blood, mucus. 



Attenuate — To draw out, to make thin, reduce in size. 



Atrophy — Wasting of a part, as the muscles. 



Atlas — The first bone of the neck or first cervical vertebra. 



Atony — General weakness, want of tone. 



Augment — To increase. 



Auricle — The external part of the ear ; also parts of the heart, one on 

 each side resembling ears. 



Auscultation — -The act of listening to sounds given b}' different parts of 

 the body when struck, especially to the sounds produced by the func- 

 tional motions of the lungs and heart by percussion. 



Balk — To refuse to pull, or to refuse to go forward at command. 



Bars — (Of the hoof.) The two ridges of horn, passing from the heels 

 of the hoof toward the toe of the frog. (Of the mouth.) The trans- 

 verse ridges on the roof of the mouth of the horse. 



Base — The lower part, as the base of the brain ; the foundation. 



Beneath — Under a certain part. 



Bicipital — Two headed, as bicips muscles, bicipital groove, etc. 



Biliary — Belonging to or pertaining to bile. Biliary du(!t, a canal con- 

 taining bile. 



Biology — The doctrine of life, or of living bodies. 



Bioplasm — The so called living or germinal self -propagating matter of 

 living beings. 



Biped — Two footed. 



Bolt — To swallow the food hurriedly without proper chewing. 



Bolus — Medicines formed into a round or conduicical mass, for ease in 

 administering, often termed a ball. The cylindrical shape is the 

 proper one. 



Boot — Buffer, a leather l)and, worn to prevent one foot outtmg the other 

 in traveling. 



Bots — The grub of the fly equus equi, when in the stomach of the 

 horse. 



Bougie — ^An instrument for opening the urethra, or urinary, or other 

 passages. 



Bounded — Parts lying about another, surrounded by. 



Breeding -in-and-in — Breeding to close relations, in the same sub-family, 

 as the produce of the same sire but of different dams, or of the tjame 

 sire and dam. 



