Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Inflammation of the pedal bone of the horse, a complication of severe founder.

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Examples

  • The dreaded dento-peditis (a.k.a. foot-in-mouth disease) has infected a passle of our finest legislatorpersons.

    08/01/2003 - 09/01/2003 John 2003

  • Neither is this all; in some of these cases of peditis acute inflammation of the coffin joint is present, and occasionally suppuration of the joint.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

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