clavus

Examples

• All

• People who wear tight shoes are more likely to develop a clavus.

• Treatment for a clavus often involves relieving the pressure causing it.

• She developed a painful clavus on her toe.

• The doctor examined the clavus carefully.

• The doctor diagnosed the painful growth on his toe as a clavus.

• People who wear tight shoes are more likely to develop a clavus.

• Treatment for a clavus often involves relieving the pressure causing it.

Synonyms

C

corn

vsclavus

10 8.4

A small painful thick area of skin on a toe from tight shoes

is a narrower term for the same lesion often linked to ill fitting shoes

C

callus

vsclavus

3 3.9

A hard thick area of skin that forms from rubbing or pressure on the hands and feet

is usually limited to toes and caused by ill fitting shoes

C

callosity

vsclavus

1 9.6

A hard thick area of skin on the hand or foot from repeated rubbing

is more specific to toes and to pressure from ill fitting shoes

Surface Forms

Etymology