NOUN
- a rudimentary metacarpal or metatarsal bone on either side of the cannon bone in the leg of a horse or related animal
How To Use splint bone In A Sentence
- The colt, who was sidelined from racing for a year from September 2001 to this September after tearing a suspensory ligament in his left front leg, fractured the splint bone and chipped a piece of the sesamsoid bone in the same leg.
- The ‘splint bones,’ far from being useless vestiges of evolution, play an important role in the horse's leg.
- While an exostosis involving any one of the splint bones, even when directly caused by an injury, is called a "splint," the term is employed here, in reference to exostoses not due to direct injury such as in contusions. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
