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 is the 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet. In the Greek numeric system, it has a value of 800. The word literally means great O, as opposed to omicron, which means little O. In phonetic terms, the Ancient Greek Î© is a long open-mid o, comparable to the vowel of British English raw. In Modern Greek, Î© represents the mid back rounded vowel /o/, the same sound as omicron. The letter omega is transcribed Å or simply o. As the last letter of the Greek alphabet, Omega is often ...