But when a horse develops laminitis, an inflamation of the tissue that bonds the horse's bone to the inner wall of the hoof, the hoof doesn't work properly, the animal is in pain and its health can be severely compromised. No lesser horse than the great Secretariat, the 1973 Triple Crown winner, was felled by laminitis.
â¢ URETER (noun) The noun URETER has 1 sense: 1. either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder. Familiarity information: URETER used as a noun is very rare.
omega oÂ·meÂ·ga (Å-mÄg'É, Å-mÄ'gÉ, Å-mÄ'-) n. Symbol Ï, Î© The 24th letter of the Greek alphabet. adj. Of or characterizing a chemical group or position at the end of a molecular chain, such as omega-oxidation.