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.
1 The o is a contraction or abbreviation of four of the clock.  2 O 'clock is an abbreviation of of the clock.  In times past clocks were relatively rare. Most people told time by some reference to the position of the sun or moon. The times provided by these two bodies do not always concur with those provided by a clock.