English Explanatory Dictionary

Morton's neuroma

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A benign neuroma of an intermetatarsal plantar nerve, most commonly of the second and third intermetatarsal spaces, resulting in the entrapment of the affected nerve.

Word forms

Morton's neuroma Morton's neuromas Morton's neuromata

Etymology

Named after Thomas George Morton, though he was not the first to describe it.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on M Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary