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The patella is an example of a
sesamoid bone, as is the navicular bone, which is in the hoof of the horse at P3.
''He smashed a
sesamoid bone on the same foot as a foal and the vet who examined him today said he couldn't believe he was still racing.''
Although Hippocrates, by the fourth century BC, uses the term epimulis (Gersh, 2012) to refer to the knee, it does not refer at all to the
sesamoid bone of that region.
THE
sesamoid bone sits at the back of the fetlock joint and anchors the suspensory ligament, thus allowing a horse's foot and fetlock to move properly.
The fabella (Latin for "little bean") is a
sesamoid bone that is visible at radiography in approximately 10-30% of the general population and is found bilaterally in most cases [1].
Technically, it is a ligament (connecting a bone to a bone), but it has often been referred to as a tendon because the patella is a
sesamoid bone. The average length of the patellar tendon is 40-53 mm [15, 16, 18, 19].
Sesamoid bone fractures of metacarpophalangeal joint of thumb are very rare.
The os peroneum is a round or oval-shaped juxtaarticular
sesamoid bone that lies within the confines of the peroneus longus tendon.
But metastasis has been reported in long bones, ribs, cranium mandible, scapula, bones of hand and foot and even the patella- a
sesamoid bone (8).
BROTHER OF IRIS, pulled up in the Racing Post Chase, will not race again this season after a veterinary examination revealed a chipped
sesamoid bone. But trainer Mary Reveley is hopeful that her chaser will be back next term .
