Toddler


A young child who is learning to walk with short unsteady steps. The word toddle is of unknown origin.

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    A torsion fracture of the tibia that occurs without bone displacement. This fracture is called toddler’s fracture because it occurs in infants who are early on in their walking, causing a stress breakage of bone in the large bone of the leg below the knee.

  • Toe sign

    Joseph Francois Felix Babinski (1857-1932). His name will not be soon forgotten in medicine, thanks to the sign he described.

  • Toenail

    A toenail is produced by living skin cells in the toe. A toenail consists of several parts including the nail plate (the visible part of the nail), the nail bed (the skin beneath the nail plate), the cuticle (the tissue that overlaps the plate and rims the base of the nail), the nail folds (the […]

  • Toenail, ingrown

    A common disorder, particularly on the big (great) toe, in which the corner of the nail curves down into the skin due to mistrimming of the nail or due to shoes being too tight. An ingrown toenail can be painful and lead to infection. Sometimes simply removing the corner of the nail from the skin […]

  • Toes, six

    on either side of the extremity or somewhere in between. The extra toe can be out beyond the little toe (which is called fibular hexadactyly) or out beyond the big toe (tibial hexadactyly) or, finally, between two of the normally expected toes (intercalary hexadactyly). Far and away the most frequent form of hexadactyly involving the […]


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