Nutritional ailment resulting from overeating. Lameness in front feet with excessive hoof growth usually occurs.
Another word for laminitis, a serious disease affecting a horse's hooves and often caused by a horse's eating too much grain or green pasture.
Common name for laminitis.
Inflammation of foot and lower leg of ruminant animals caused by overeating grain or green grass.
inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse
stumble and nearly fall; "the horses foundered"
a flare that has gone so far that the coffin bone has rotated
internal deformity of the foot caused from rotation of the coffin bone due to simultaneous detachment from the hoof wall and pull by the deep flexor tendon and gravity inflammation in a horse’s foot, to go lame.
Term used to describe the detachment and rotation of the coffin bone which happens in severe cases of laminitis. If this happens, the horse is said to have foundered. Causes severe lameness.