THE ANTERIOR LIMBS. 



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offering for study two faces and a circumference. The external face is convex, 

 roughened, and channeled anteriorly by a groove that traverses it from above to 

 below, in which glides the inferior tendon of the external flexor of the 



CARPUS OF THE HORSE (ANTERIOR FACE). 



', Pisil'orm or su|)ercar))al bone (first of the 

 upper row) ; 2, cuneiform (second ditto) ; 

 3, lunar (third ditto); 4, scaphoid (fourth 

 ditto); 5, unciform (first of lower row); 

 6, OS magnum (second ditto) ; 7, trape- 

 zoid (third ditto); 9, inferior articular 

 face of the radius; 10, groove for the 

 oblique extensor tendon of the meta- 

 carpus; 11, groove for the anterior ex- 

 tensor of the metacarpus ; 1'^, groove for 

 the anterior extensor of the phalanges ; 

 13, superior extremity of the laige meta- 

 carpal bone; 14, tubeicle for the inser- 

 tion of the anterior extensor of the meta- 

 carpus ; 15, superior extremity of the 

 external small metacarpal bone. 



CARPUS OF THE HORSE (POSTERIOR FACE> 



1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, Same bones as in preced- 

 ing figure ; 8, trapezium (fourth bone of 

 the lower row); 9, 9, inferior articular 

 surface of the radius ; 10, transverse crest 

 for insertion of common posterior liga- 

 ment of the carpus; 11, superior extremity 

 of large metacarpal bone; 12, rugosities 

 in which are fixed the deep layer of the 

 suspensoiy ligament of the fetlock or 

 superior sesamoid ligament ; 13, external 

 Bmall metacarpal ; 14, internal ditto. 



metacarpus. Its internal face — smooth and concave — concurs in forming the 

 external wall of the carpal sheath. The circumference presents, in front, two 

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