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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