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Morton, n. Path.|ˈmɔːtən|
The name of Thomas George Morton (1835–1903), U.S. surgeon, used in the possessive, esp. in Morton's foot, Morton's metatarsalgia, Morton's toe, to designate a condition of the foot described by him in 1876 (Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. LXXXI. 37), in which compression of a plantar nerve by a metatarsal bone causes pain in the metatarsal region and sometimes a neuromatous swelling of the nerve concerned.
1891Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 16 July 52/2 (heading) Metatarsal Neuralgia, or ‘Morton's Affection of the Foot’. 1900Dorland Med. Dict. 397/2 Morton's foot. 1900Index-Cat. Libr. Surgeon-General's Office U.S. Army 2nd Ser. V. 947/2 (heading) Morton's toe. 1925J. J. Nutt Dis. & Deformities of Foot (ed. 2) x. 252 Morton's toe is a neuritis, caused by nerve pressure by the head of the fourth metatarsal. 1935N. C. Lake Foot xvii. 235 In 1876 Morton of Philadelphia described a painful affection of the forepart of the foot which has since that time gone by the name of ‘Morton's metatarsalgia’. 1939Dickson & Diveley Functional Disorders of Foot ix. 186 (heading) Descent of the metatarsal arch and anterior metatarsalgia (Morton's toe). 1977J. F. Fixx Compl. Bk. Running xxii. 252 Undoubtedly there was more than a little midnight oil burned as doctors the country over studied up on Morton's toe. |