Morton's neuroma

Morton's neuroma
Mor·ton's neuroma .mȯrt-ənz- n a neuroma formed in conjunction with Morton's toe
Morton Thomas George (1835-1903)
American surgeon. Morton published the first complete description of a form of metatarsalgia involving compression of a branch of the plantar nerve in 1876. Although it had been already observed, the condition has since become identified with him.

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