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PRINCIPLES OF VETERINARY SCIENCE 



The internal angle is thick, forms the highest part of this region, 

 and is known as the angle of the croup. The external angle is 

 large and forms the prominence which, in the living animal, is 



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Femur 



Patella 



Fibula 



Tibia 



Hock 



Metatarsus 



First phalanx 



Second phalanx 

 Third phalanx 



Fig. 7. — Skeleton of right hind limb of horse (lateral view). 



referred to 'as the "hook bone," point of the hip, or angle of the 

 haunch. The posterior angle connects with the shaft (see 

 frontispiece). 



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