swell-foot

[Ger. schwellfu .] Swelling and redne of the metatarsus, with pain and disability, due to sprain of the ligaments (syn des mitis me tatar sea), and frequently detachment of them from the bones, chips of bone being torn off with the rupture. The trouble results from jumping or the strain of dancing or long marches, being especially produced, it is said, by the goose-step method of marching practised in the German army.