greek toe

The Greek toe is a skeletal condition in which the second toe is longer than the big toe, due to a shorter metatarsal in the latter. It is the most common form of brachymetatarsia, present in approximately 22% of the global human population.

While also called Morton's toe (or erroneously Metatarsus atavicus) due to its clinical definition in 1927 by American orthopedic surgeon Dudley Joy Morton (1884–1960), the condition has been known since ancient Greece. It was an idealized form in Greek sculpture as opposed to a longer big toe (or "Egyptian foot") that was carried over through the Roman and Renaissance periods, and is present in famous artworks such as The Birth of Venus (≈1480s) and the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World, 1886).

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