How to use Cannon-bones in a sentence

The cannon-bones are remarkably short and wide, and in this respect differ from those of all allied ruminants, except the Tibetan takin.

In the structure of its horns the North American white Rocky Mountain goat (Oreamnus) is very like a serow, from which it differs by its extremely short cannon-bones.

In general form, so far as can be judged from the disarticulated skeleton, the okapi was more like an antelope than a giraffe, the fore and hind cannon-bones, and consequently the entire limbs, being of approximately equal length.

The two cannon-bones of each limb are confluent for the greater part of their length, though separated for a considerable distance at the lower end.

In the Lower Miocene occurs Protomeryx or Gomphotherium, in which there is a considerable increase in the matter of bodily size, the two metacarpal and metatarsal bones (or those which unite in the latter forms to constitute the cannon-bones) being double the length of the corresponding elements in Protylopus.

The cannon-bones should be flat, heavy and clean, and the feet wide, tough, and prominent at the heels.

The limbs, especially the cannon-bones, are relatively short, and the splint-bones large.