Crossword clues for clubfoot
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Talipes \Tal"i*pes\, n. [NL., fr. L. talus an ankle + pes, pedis, a foot; cf. L. talipedare to be weak in the feet, properly, to walk on the ankles.] (Surg.) The deformity called clubfoot. See Clubfoot.
Note: Several varieties are distinguished; as, Talipes varus, in which the foot is drawn up and bent inward; T. valgus, in which the foot is bent outward; T. equinus, in which the sole faces backward and the patient walks upon the balls of the toes; and T. calcaneus (called also talus), in which the sole faces forward and the patient walks upon the heel.
Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) A congenital deformity of the foot in which the ankle, heel and toes are twisted.
WordNet
n. congenital deformity of the foot usually marked by a curled shape or twisted position of the ankle and heel and toes [syn: talipes]
Usage examples of "clubfoot".
As she helped Clubfoot sing the choruses, the white band thickened and thinned and thickened.
But the Guard had a finding-stone spelled by the wizard Clubfoot himself.
Mirandee and the Frightener ate together, and talked long, while Clubfoot listened at a distance.
Three of their mules died in the desert when Clubfoot ran out of the ability to make rain.
The situation was just this desperate: Clubfoot and the Warlock, two of the most powerful magicians left in the world, came to the conference at Prissthil on foot, leading a pack mule.
Mirandee and Clubfoot joined in, clear soprano and awkward bass, at chorus points that were not obvious.
In the end they stayed up there, Clubfoot and Wavyhill and the Warlock.
He called, and two soldiers came out of the fog with Clubfoot between them.
But Clubfoot and the Warlock could only expect to be questioned, then killed.
As Clubfoot bent over him, hurting with the need and the impossibility of curing him by magic, the Warlock had gasped three words.
The guard and Clubfoot had been pressed close to the window in the door.
As the Warlock washed himself he tried to hear what Clubfoot was telling them.
At the back, a few white-haired, white-skinned boys and girls stood like trees among saplings, straining to hear, Clubfoot and the Warlock took turns at the window to tell tales of dragon fights, wars of magic, ancient kingdoms, strange half-human peoples .
The Warlock had pretended to call up the dead: phantasms that Clubfoot animated with his thoughts.
He was mildly disappointed, and mildly relieved, that Clubfoot had come back with the herbs.