plantar
IPA: pɫˈæntɝ
adjective
- (anatomy) Relating to the sole of the foot.
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Examples of "plantar" in Sentences
- Most heel pain is of the type that goes by the name plantar fasciitis.
- For warts affecting the feet called plantar warts, the story was different.
- For warts affecting the feet (called plantar warts), the story was different.
- I've been suffering from a terrible ailment called plantar fasciitis which is excruciatingly painful in the heel.
- According as the nerve operated on is the plantar or the median, the operation is known as plantar or median neurectomy.
- Common warts are harmless skin lesions that are usually found on the hands or soles of the feet, the latter referred to as plantar warts.
- [Footnote A: The epithet 'ungual' is added by Chauveau to distinguish these arteries from the properly so-called plantar arteries -- the terminal divisions of the posterior tibial artery.]
- Nowadays, you are more likely to affect your whorls by picking up a tiny virus-based skin tumor called a plantar wart (veruca), which deforms the skin striae as it grows, making the ridges go around it.
- For those of you who slept through the Podiatry 101 lecture in medical school, this condition is an irritation of the -- ahem -- plantar fascia, aka the plantar aponeurosis -- which is the ligamental structure under the foot that supports the arch.
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