Colloquially referred to as the knee, the equine “carpus” would be more accurately termed the wrist — as this is its equivalent structure in the human body. The horse’s fetlock then relates to our knuckle, his hoof to our fingernail and his pedal bone to the bone in the very tip of our finger.
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