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.
YOUR EYEGLASS PRESCRIPTION DECODED. Your eyeglass prescription is typically written in a grid like the one below, using a combination of terms, abbreviations, and numbers. Usually youâll see these abbreviations along the left side: O.D. stands for oculus dexter, meaning right eye. O.S. stands for oculus sinister, meaning left eye. O.U. stands for and oculus uterque, meaning both eyes.