Definitions for "Laminitis"
Keywords:  hoof, founder, hooves, coffin, horse
Inflammation of the laminæ or fleshy plates along the coffin bone of a horse; founder.
A systemic illness in the horse which involves the malfunction of the AVAs in the hooves. The blood flow through the hoof may be increased, but it is diverted away from the fine capillaries which supply the laminae. This results in the death of some laminar tissue, and causes the horse pain. Laminitis can lead to founder.
Founder, inflammation of the sensitive laminae, or plates of vascular tissue, of the wall of the horse's hoof.