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Look up: hallux

  1. Hallux
    A hallux, or dewclaw, is a functionless claw that doesn't hit the ground. Some dinosaurs had dewclaws.
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  2. Hallux
    The hallux is the innermost of the five digits which normally compose the hind foot of a vertebrate. In humans the big toe, in a bird the hind toe.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  3. Hallux
    Great (big) toe.
    Found on http://www.gadsbywicks.co.uk/docs/GLOSSA

  4. Hallux
    Hallux: What the ancient Romans called the big toe. Since hallux was a good enough word for the big toe among the ancient Romans, it has long done yeoman's duty in medicine. Abnormalities of the big toe tend thus to be called hallux this-or-that. For example, hallux valgus and hallux varus. In hallux valgus, the big toe is bent outward (valgus) so ...
    Found on http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.

  5. hallux
    the great toe. Category: Medicine
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  6. Hallux
    Hal'lux (hăl'lŭks) noun [ New Latin , from Latin hallex , allex .] (Anat.) The first, or preaxial, digit of the hind limb, corresponding to the pollux in the fore limb; the great toe; the hind toe of birds.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/8

  7. hallux
    <anatomy, ornithology> The first, or preaxial, digit of the hind limb, corresponding to the pollux in the fore limb; the great toe; the hind toe of birds. ... Origin: NL, fr. L. Hallex, allex. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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  8. Hallux
    The pl. , also known as the `big toe` or `thumb toe` is the innermost toe of the foot, counted as digit I. In humans, the hallux is longer than the second or pointer toe for a majority of people. This is an inherited trait in humans, where the dominant gene causes the normal length hallux while the homozygous recessive geneotype presents with a longer second toe. (Commonly known as `mitten foot` or `Morton's toe`). In birds with anisodactyl or ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallux

  9. hallux
    (hal´әks) pl. hal´luces Latin word meaning the great toe.
    Found on http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns

  10. Hallux
    • (n.) The first, or preaxial, digit of the hind limb, corresponding to the pollux in the fore limb; the great toe; the hind toe of birds.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  11. hallux
    Syn: great toe I [a Mod. L. form for L. hallex (hallic-), great toe]
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