Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

morton's neuroma

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English

Syllables: mor-ton's neu-ro-ma
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

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

Usage

Inflected Forms

Morton's neuromas (plural) Morton's neuromata (plural)

Questions

What does morton's neuroma mean?: 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.
Where does morton's neuroma come from?: Named after Thomas George Morton, though he was not the first to describe it.

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