1250 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



Continuity — ^Parts united so completely that they cannot be separated 



without laceration or fracture. 

 Convalescent — Returning to health after sickness. 

 Convoluted — Rolled together or upon itself. The cerebrum is convoluted. 



The irregular foldings of the intestines are convolutions. 

 Copious — Plentiful, abundant, as a copious discharge. 

 Core — The hard portion of purulent matter, as in boils. 

 Corn — A diseased portion of the foot, — in the horse, between the bar 



and the quarter, usually on the inside. 

 Coronet — The upper part of the hoof, just where it joins the skin. 

 Corrosive — ^That which eats away, destroying the texture of the living 



body. 

 Corrugation — ^Contracting the skin into wrinkles. 

 Costa — A rib. Costal : belonging to the ribs. 

 Counter Irritation — An application to irritate one pai-t to relieve pain in 



another. A blister or mustard poultice produces counter irritation. 

 Cow-pox — Peculiar pustules upon the teats of cows, from which the vac- 

 cine matter is obtained, used to prevent contagion from small-pox, or 



to mitigate the intensity of the disease. 

 Cranium — The skull. Cranial : pertaining to the skull. 

 Crest — The back or upper j^art of the neck of the horse. 

 Crepitation — Applied to the noise made by the ends of fractured bones, 



when they grate together. The sound produced by pressing together 



cellular tissue in which air is contained. 

 Cribbing {of horses) — The act of seizing any hard substance, or pressing 



thereon witn the teeth, and gulping; sometimes called wind sucking, 



though the latter is not necessarily cribbing. 

 Crisis — In disease, that pomt or period which determines a favorable oi 



unfavorable termination. 

 Crop — The craw or first stomach of a fowl. 

 Cruor — The red colored portion of the blood. 

 Crupper — The buttocks of a horse. 



Crural — Pertaining to the legs, as the crural arteries and veins. 

 Crust — The hoof, so-called. The outside luminal of the hoof. 

 Crusta — A scab. 



Cul-de-sac — A passage closed at one end. 

 Cuneiform — Formed like a wedge. 

 Curb — A soft swelling, becoming hard, situated on the back part of the 



hind leg, just below the point of the hock. 

 Cuticle — The epidermis or scurf skin. The skin is composed of the cutis 



vera, reta muscasum and cuticula. 

 Cutaneous — Of the skin, as ^ cutaneous affection. 



