Anatom3DLeft little toe
Digitus minimus pedis sinistri · Levý malík nohy
Skeleton
Looks like
The fifth toe: small, with three phalanges (the middle and tip bones are often fused) on the fifth metatarsal.
What it does
Adds balance at the outer edge of the foot.
Keeping it well
The toe most often stubbed and broken; a bunionette or corn on its outer side comes from tight shoes.
Its parts
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