quittor
ər noun Veterinary Pathology.
purulent infection of horses and other hoofed animals, characterized by chronic inflammation of the lateral cartilage of the foot and formation of fistulas that open above the coronet, usually resulting in lameness.
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| vet science infection of the cartilages on the side of a horse's foot, characterized by inflammation and the formation of pus | |
| [C13: perhaps from Old French cuiture a boiling, from Latin coctūra a cooking, from coquere to cook] | |
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Quittor
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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