English

Noun

ring-bone ‎(plural ring-bones)

1. (veterinary medicine, horses) A bony deposit on the leg of a horse, forming a ring around the bone.
   • 1904, John A. W. Dollar, Practice of Veterinary Surgery: Regional veterinary surgery:

     This, however, favours strain of the ligaments and unequal distribution of weight over the articular surface, circumstances which lie at the root of the morbid changes, while they also explain why the periarticular form of ring-bone is the most frequent, and why the disease only occurs in solipeds.