‘Lord Byron, Britain's great romantic who was ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’, was also born with talipes, or a club foot.’
‘However, the consensus opinion seems to be that he had a mild form of talipes in his right foot.’
‘In 2001 Edinburgh University awarded him a D.Sc. degree for research on spinal stenosis, and he was awarded the Syme professorship for work on congenital talipes (formerly called ‘club foot’).’
‘Amie was born with bilateral talipes, meaning her feet were turning inwards.’
Origin
Mid 19th century modern Latin, from Latin talus ‘ankle’ + pes ‘foot’.
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