Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Mor·ton's neuroma Pronunciation:
"mort-&nz- Function:
noun : 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 theplantar nerve in 1876. Although it had been already observed, the condition has since become identified with him.
