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The impacted intestine feels soft and doughy and is easily indented with the knuckles, forming a marked contrast with the tense, elastic, resilient, overdistended bladder.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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When these sacs are overdistended by reason of an excessive secretion of synovia, they are called windgalls.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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When the neck is unaffected the urine is retained until the bladder is greatly overdistended, when it may be expelled in a gush by the active contraction of the muscular walls of the abdomen; this never empties the bladder, however, and the oiled hand introduced through the rectum may feel the soft, flabby organ still half full of urine.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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