hammer toe

A deformity resulting from the wearing of short shoes. Usually only one toe is affected. The toe is flexed sharply at the first phalangeal joint, while the third phalanx may, or may not be, overextended. hamstring. See under ham. ham'ular. Hook-shaped. h. proce . See under proce . [Lat., hamular is, from ham us, hook.] ham'ulus. A small hook or hook-shaped structure, h. frontal is, h. frontal is o is ethmoidal is. The ala of the ethmoid bone. h. lacrimal is. A small hooklike proce at the lower end of the crest of the lacrimal bone. h. laminae spiral is. A hook-shaped proce at the upper end of the lamina spiral is of the cochlea, which forms a part of the boundary of the helicotrema. h. of the cochleae, h. o eus cochleae. See h. laminae spiral is. [Lat., dim. of ham us, hook.] hand. The terminal part of the forelimb in quadrupeds, especially when prehensile. The carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges with the accompanying ligaments, tendons, nerves, muscles, connective ti ue, fat, skin, and nails [B. N. A., manus]. [Teutonic, and Old Eng., hand, hond; pi. hand a or honda.1 hang'nail. A splitting of the epidermis at the side of a finger nail. Hanot's disease (han'o). Hypertrophic cirrhosis of the liver, with chronic jaundice. [Victor Charles Hanot, Fr. physician, 1 844-1 896.] hapalonychia softened nail. (hap"al-o-nik'e-ah). A hap he phot a i a (haf-e-fo'be-ah). A phobia of being touched. [Gr., aphe, touch, -fphobos, fear.] haplo-. A prefix from the Gr., aploos, single, simple. haplopia (hap-lo'pe-ah). Single vision. [Gr., aploos, simple, -jops, eye.] hap'tin. Any receptor capable of being cast off from a cell. [Gr., aptein, to seize.] hap to phil (hap'to-fil). ing an affinity for the The receptor group. haptophore hav- [Gr., aptein, to bind, + philein, to love.] haptophore (hap'to-for). The by fixed, toxic elements of a toxin, which non-it unites with an antitoxin and becomes neutralized, h. group. The group of atoms of a complement, toxin, agglutinin, opsonin, or precipitin, which anchors or binds it to amboceptors, body cells, bacteria or proteids in solution. [Gr., aptein, to seize, + phorein, to carry.]