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Webster 1913 Edition

Canon bone

Can′on boneˊ

.
[F.
canon
, fr. L.
canon
a rule. See
canon
.]
(Anat.)
The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See
Horse
.

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