Anatom3DMiddle phalanx of left second toe
Phalanx media digiti secundi pedis sinistri · Střední článek levého druhého prstu nohy
Skeleton
Looks like
The short middle bone of the second toe.
What it does
Links the two small toe joints.
Keeping it well
The joint at its base bends up in a hammer toe, causing corns on top.
Related conditions
- Acromegaly
- Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)
- Bunion & foot deformity
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clubfoot (talipes equinovarus)
- Flat feet (pes planus)
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Ganglion cyst
- Gout
- Hammer toe and claw toe
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Ingrown toenail
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Morton's neuroma
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Restless legs syndrome
- Sarcoma
- Varicose veins
- Venomous snakebite
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency