Etymology

Morton's neuroma

Today it means: A benign neuroma of an intermetatarsal plantar nerve, most commonly of the second and third intermetatarsal spaces, resulting in the entrapment of the affected nerve. Full definition →

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The story

Named after Thomas George Morton, though he was not the first to describe it.

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