单词 | club-foot |
释义 | club-footn. 1. A deformed or distorted foot. A name for various distortions, generally congenital, which give the foot a more or less stunted, lumpy appearance. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > of foot club-foota1552 baker feet1656 valgus1800 varus1800 inversion1825 talipes1842 pommel foot1857 inturn1860 talus1864 flat-foot1870 spurious valgus1872 flat-footedness1882 Friedreich('s) foot1940 a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) IV. 97 Hales with the clubbe Foot hath gotten an Interest in this Colledge. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pied-bot, a club-foot, or stub-foot. 1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 493 Those distortions of the feet, which are commonly called Club-feet. 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 348/2 There are three principal forms of distortion to which the foot is congenitally subject: 1. When the foot is turned inwards, which has been termed varus. 2. When it is turned outwards, called valgus. 3. When the foot is permanently extended, and the patient can only put the toes to the ground, termed pes equinus. Almost all the varieties of club-foot may be referred to one of these species. 1883 J. C. Jeaffreson Real Ld. Byron iii The lameness of such an ordinary club-foot as disfigured Sir Walter Scott. 2. A foot of a lumpy, club-like appearance. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > of foot > foot splay-foot1548 stump foota1568 polt-foot1578 club-foot1683 bumble foot1832 reel foot1835 pigeon toe1888 clump-foot1922 rocker foot1934 1683 London Gaz. No. 1805/4 Also Stolen a brown Gelding, having one Club-foot behind. 1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 262 These Creatures [land turtles] have Club Feet as big as one's Fist, shaped much like those of an Elephant. 1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. vii. 76 It is a club-foot, and looks too blunt for the limb. Compounds C1. attributive. = club-footed adj. ΚΠ 1583 T. Watson Poems (1870) 103 He gybes the Clubfoote Smith, Who threatens him. a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) Sat. x. 191 Nero did not take A noble club-foot-stripling. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 139 Commonly called Club-foot Hales. C2. club-foot moss n. = club-moss n. ( Cent. Dict. 1890). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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