What's the difference between farrier and horseshoe?

Farrier


Definition:

  • (n.) A shoer of horses; a veterinary surgeon.
  • (v. i.) To practice as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The son of longtime Rhode Island Republican senator John Chafee, the presidential candidate’s biography brags that he “attended Montana State University horse shoeing school in Bozeman and worked as a farrier at harness racing tracks for seven years”.
  • (2) The correction of most foot problems requires an appreciation of a multitude of factors and a thorough knowledge of farrier science.
  • (3) Farrier's Formula feed supplement was added to the diet of 18 horses with two types of hoof horn defects.
  • (4) Yet Jennifer once had the waywardness of her daughter Kate, and the romantic spirit of her youngest, Alice, an engineer who is happily married to a farrier .
  • (5) He became farrier after years of apprenticeships at Newark and Retford.
  • (6) The Horse and Farrier pub, basking in the embrace of Saddleback mountain, is the campaign headquarters for Friends of Blencathra (which is the mountain's proper name).
  • (7) In 1783 the first edition of his book "Every man his own farrier" was published.
  • (8) Even though the farriers and cowleeches had little knowledge, and occasionally less ethics, most performed as best they could.

Horseshoe


Definition:

  • (n.) A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof.
  • (n.) Anything shaped like a horsehoe crab.
  • (n.) The Limulus of horsehoe crab.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Computerized tomography before anticipated percutaneous stone extraction revealed the colon to be positioned posterior to the left portion of the horseshoe kidney.
  • (2) In association with a horseshoe lung it is extremely uncommon.
  • (3) A clottable protein, named coagulogen, was highly purified from the amoebocyte lysate of Japanese horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) by a method similar to that used for the lysate of Limulus polyphemus amoebocytes.
  • (4) Eight other additional cases of horseshoe lung without scimitar syndrome are mentioned here.
  • (5) If this sequence is followed, the unanticipated combination of abdominal aneurysm and horseshoe kidney should be rare.
  • (6) The amino acid sequence of troponin C obtained from horseshoe crab, Tachypleus tridentatus, striated muscle was determined by sequence analysis and alignments of chemically and enzymatically cleaved peptides.
  • (7) This study may reveal abnormalities which will allow the diagnosis of horseshoe kidney to be made or suspected.
  • (8) In addition, she had a horseshoe kidney abnormality.
  • (9) More liberal use of the seton in the treatment of horseshoe abscesses and fistulas is advocated.
  • (10) Furthermore, the authors report on the complications and treatment in special cases; i. e., patients with horseshoe kidneys, solitary kidneys, spinal cord lesions, radiolucent calculi, hemophilia, and staghorn stones.
  • (11) Clots were allowed to form in samples of whole blood taken from the American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, in the absence and presence of dansylcadaverine (16), and were analyzed for their contents of N epsilon(gamma-glutamyl)lysine and gamma-glutamyl-dansylcadaverine.
  • (12) This is the first case where it is found associated to horseshoe kidney.
  • (13) The retinal projections in the horseshoe bat were studied with anterograde transport of wheat germ agglutinin conjugated to horseradish peroxidase.
  • (14) Chromosome analysis of blood cells from a 42-year-old white male with mental retardation, colon carcinoma, horseshoe kidney, absence of left lobe of the liver, agenesis of the gallbladder, and possible Gardner syndrome revealed a constitutional marker chromosome due to del(5)(q13q15) or del(5)(q15q22).
  • (15) Only 35 cases of horseshoe kidney with a renal tumor have been reported in the Japanese literature.
  • (16) In horseshoe kidney, anatomical features and impaired drainage of urine, make stone treatment by ESWL technically difficult and fragments output unsuccessfully.
  • (17) On Friday morning the 30 men and women were joined by a few hundred others on Horseshoe beach at Newcastle, as well as a police presence on land and water.
  • (18) A 91-year-old man had a symptomatic, enlarging abdominal aortic aneurysm in association with horseshoe kidney.
  • (19) These tension forces at right angles to each other explain the development of (1) concave retinal detachment or retinal folds off short limbal-parallel buckles, (2) retinal folds on long limbal-parallel buckles, and (3) fishmouthing of horseshoe tears overlying a limbal-parallel buckle.
  • (20) The present report is concerned with two cases of the horseshoe kidney.

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