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A foot deformity is a disorder of the foot that can be congenital or acquired. Above is a foot of a black boy who did not wear shoes, and below is another foot of a white boy. His feet were completely deformed due to wearing tight shoes for a long period of time. Such deformities can include hammer toe, club foot, flat feet, pes cavus, etc.
Louis Joseph César Ducornet, (1806 – 1856) was a French painter who painted with his foot. He is known primarily for biblical and historical scenes, as well as portraits. Ame Barnbrook was born without arms and only the lower half of her left leg, and three toes. [14] She has a rarer form of phocomelia, meaning all of her limbs are affected.
Congenital limb deformities are congenital musculoskeletal disorders which primarily affect the upper and lower limbs. An example is polydactyly , where a foot or hand has more than 5 digits. Clubfoot , one of the most common congenital deformities of the lower limbs, occurs approximately 1 in 1000 births.
Transverse hemimelia is a congenital absence of part or all of a limb (including hand or foot) and is called amelia when the entire limb is missing. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Paraxial hemimelia means partial absence of one of the elements of the limb in the longitudinal axis (in phocomelia there is no complete absence of a part of the limb).
Bones of human lower extremity X-ray image of fibular hemimelia type II (fibula completely absent) Characteristics are: [citation needed] A fibrous band instead of the fibula; Short deformed leg; Absence of the lateral part of the ankle joint (due to absence of the distal end of the fibula), and what is left is unstable; the foot has an ...
Amelia of the arms in a Hindu woman. Amelia may be present as an isolated defect, but it is often associated with major malformations in other organ systems. These frequently include cleft lip and/or palate, body wall defects, malformed head, and defects of the neural tube, kidneys, and diaphragm.
Dysmelia can be caused by [citation needed]. Inheritance of abnormal genes, e.g. polydactyly, ectrodactyly or brachydactyly, symptoms of deformed limbs then often occur in combination with other symptoms ()
They can be due to deformity or malformation. [1] An example is Klippel–Feil syndrome. [citation needed] Although present at birth, some only become obvious ...