hallux
IPA: hˈæɫʌks
noun
- (anatomy) The big toe.
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Examples of "hallux" in Sentences
- The big toe is referred to as the hallux.
- The hallux usually moves in the transverse plane.
- A dewclaw is a hallux and therefore the first digit.
- It also has an unusually large first toe, or hallux.
- It plantarflexes the hallux and assists in supination.
- Many coucals have a long claw on their hind toe hallux .
- Congenital hypertrophy of the lateral fold of the hallux.
- Most of us have the hallux equal or bigger to the next toe.
- There are several types of surgery for treatment of Hallux rigidus.
- The first picture in this article would be OK to illustrate Hallux valgus.
- I never thought I'd pin my life's happiness (at least for the next three weeks) on one man's hallux.
- Osteoarthritis of the first metatarsophalangeal joint (MPJ) of the foot, termed hallux limitus, is common and painful.
- We treat disorders and deformities of the foot and ankle as well as clubfoot, vertical talus, hallux valgus, fractures and other trauma.
- Its broad feet, prominent and curved claws, large hallux, and palms and soles covered in small tubercles indicated that it was a tree-climbing species.
- The hind toe is called the hallux, and corresponds to the thumb of the human hand, so that in grasping an object it can be made to meet any of the other toes.
- Compared to other hornbills, ground hornbills have elongate tarsometatarsi, and they also have short toes, though strangely with the hallux being the longest of the four (note that this is rarely depicted accurately in artwork).
- "Over time, that insignificant value becomes significant," said Connors, who rattled through an abridged list of Khannouchi's ailments—patellofemoral syndrome, ankle impingement, bone spurs and something called hallux rigidus, which is degenerative arthritis in the big toe.
- No primatologist or anthropologist seems to have made anything of this, but I've yet to see anything that would rule out an arboreal leaping stage in (small) hominids that would explain the transition to walking bipedalism (indriids can't do this with their huge divergent hallux, but we grip branches with the instep instead).