274 PRINCIPLES OF VETERINARY SCIENCE 



Outline for Soundness Examination 



Student's Name Horse's Name or Number 



Date Horse's Color & Markings 



I. Head and Neck 



Lips: Paralysis Wounds Slobbering 



Tongue: Lolling Injuries Scars 



Teeth: Age Crib-mouth Overshot jaw. . . 



Undershot jaw Diseased teeth 



Nostrils: Nasal discharge Ulers Odor to breath. 



Eyes: Blindness Inflammation 



Discharge White spots 



Ears: Deafness Discharge Fistula 



Poll: Poll evil Bruises 



Neck: Abscesses under jaw Abnormal breathing 



Rings of trachea broken Broken crest. . . . Collar sores. . . . 



II. Trunk and Fore Limbs- 

 Body: Narrow chest Defective back Hernia 



Withers: Fistula Saddle galls 



Shoulders: Collar galls "Sweeny" Tumors 



Elbows: Shoe boil Wounds 



Knees: Broken knee Buck-knee Calf-knee 



Capped knee 



Cannons: Splints Sore, thickened, and "bowed" tendons 



Fetlocks: Windgalls Interfering wounds " Knuckling" 



Pasterns: Ring-bone Scratches Grease heel 



Coronets: Sidebone Quittor Calk wounds 



Hoofs: (on ground) Base wide Base narrow Pigeon-toe 



Splay-foot Founder rings Navicular disease 



Hollow-wall Contracted heels Toe or quarter cracks. 



Hoofs: Gifted) Thin wall Thick wall Corns 



" Dropped" sole Contracted frog Thrush 



III. Pelvis and Hind Limbs 



Tail: Docked Crooked Paralysis Tumors 



Hips: Asymmetric Knocked down 



Thigh: Atrophy Scars 



Stiffes: Dislocated Swellings 



Hocks: Capped hock Bone spavin. Bog spavin 



Thoroughpin Curb Stringhalt 



Firing marks Cow-hock Sickle-hock 



Cannons: Sore, thickened, and " bowed"tendons 



Fetlocks; Windgalls Interfering wounds Knuckling 



Pasterns: Ring-bone Scratches Grease heel 



Coronets: Sidebone Quittor Calk wounds 



Hoofs: (on ground) Base wide Base narrow Founder rings 



Navicular disease Hollow-wa 11 . 



Con+rac*ed heels Toe or quarter cracks. . . . 



Hoofs: (lifted) Thin wall Thick wall 



"Dropped" sole Contracted frog Thrush 



When a blemish is present use + ; when absent O; for right side R; left L. 



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