Common defects of the hind limbs include the same base-wide and base-narrow stances and problems with the feet as the fore limbs, as well as multiple issues with the angle formed by the hock joint being too angled (sickle-hocked), too straight (straight behind) or having an inward deviation (cow-hocked).
The hock must have been flowing like the Rhine.
Nathan, 15, moved up the leg and worked through the hock, while Karina, 16, eyed the shoulder.
Some will scoff but only fools mock the Hock. 2 July to 2 October, Royal Academy, London.
One day while wandering around aimlessly, I discovered it hanging in the window of the hock shop.
Like how the hock joints on the hind legs of the "horse" have been reversed to mirror Katie's front legs.
Dr. Dean Richardson discovered a fissure on the tip of the cannon bone where it joins the lower part of the hock.
A starter of crispy deep-fried ham hock with pickled salad – the hock one large monotonous briquette – is OK if lacking finesse.
Perosis, a disorder of chicks, turkey poults, and young swans, characterized by enlargement of the hock, twisted metatarsi, and slipped tendons; it can be largely eliminated by adding manganese and choline to the diet.
Tarsal, any of several short, angular bones that in humans make up the ankle and that in animals that walk on their toes (e.g., dogs, cats) or on hoofs are contained in the hock, lifted off the ground.
He was the killer aesthete, enough to shiver the hock and seltzer in the glasses of Victorians who knew that the "criminal classes" were quite distinct from cultivated, proper people.
