Quittor is an infection of the collateral cartilage within the foot of

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. A condition once common in

draft horse A draft horse (US) or draught horse (UK), also known as dray horse, carthorse, work horse or heavy horse, is a large horse bred to be a working animal hauling freight and doing heavy agricultural tasks such as plowing. There are a number o ...

s, particularly horses working it is characterized by a draining tract. Quittor usually results from an injury in the region of the coronary band above the

hoof The hoof (: hooves) is the tip of a toe of an ungulate mammal, which is covered and strengthened with a thick and horny keratin covering. Artiodactyls are even-toed ungulates, species whose feet have an even number of digits; the ruminants with ...

, leading to an infection. In some cases, removing the infected cartilage requires cutting away parts of the hoof. Because use of draft horses has declined significantly, it is less commonly encountered today. Outdated textbooks sometimes refer to subsolar abscessation as "cutaneous quittor" but this is no longer in common usage.

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{{reflist Equine injury and lameness Equine hoof Horse diseases

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