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1. Two lateral ligaments, an external and an internal ( Fig. 11, a). 



2. Two lateral sesamoid ligaments (/). 



3. An intersesamoid ligament (Fig. 12, b), a thick, fibrous mass, 

 binding the sesamoid 



bones almost immovably Fig. 11. 



together, extending 

 above them and pre- 

 senting on its posterior 

 face a smooth groove, in 

 which glide the flexor 

 tendons of the phalan- 

 ges (perforans and per- 

 foratus). 



4. The suspensory liga- 

 ment of the fetlock (Figs. 

 11, c, 12, c, and 13, c, 

 pages 27 and 28.) This 

 may also be called the 

 superior sesamoid liga- 

 ment. It is a long and 

 very powerful brace, 

 originating on the lower 

 row of carpal bones 

 (bones of the hock in 

 the hind leg) and on the 

 upper end of the cannon 

 between the heads of 

 the two splint-bones, ' 



and dividing at the lower third of the cannon into tAvo branches 

 (c), which are attached one to each sesamoid bone. Below these 

 bones these two branches are prolonged obliquely downward 

 and forward on opposite sides of the long pastern to pass into 

 the borders of the anterior extensor tendon of the toe at about 

 the middle of the long pastern (Fig. 14, b', page 30). 



5. The inferior sesamoid ligament (Figs. 11, d, d', 12, d, d', and 



