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Definition of Cleft foot
1. Noun. A deformity in which the space between the third and fourth toes extends up into the foot.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cleft Foot
Literary usage of Cleft foot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. General Pathology by Ernst Ziegler (1908)
"550 asteroides, 665 Clavus, 269 Clay eaters, 739 Cleft-foot, 528 Cleft-hand.
528 Cleft of the abdominal wall, .">'_'1 Clefts. :>04 of the face, median, ..."
2. God and the Future Life: The Reasonableness of Christianity by Charles Nordhoff (1884)
"But why the cleft foot should be the invariable mark of a particular order of
animals—why with that should go teeth, bones, digestive apparatus of a ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"... when they rest on sufficiently repeated observations ; so that now, whoso sees
merely the print of a cleft foot may conclude that the animal which left ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"... when they rest on sufficiently repeated observations; so that now, whoso sees
merely the print of a cleft foot may conclude that the animal which left ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1907)
"... when they rest on sufficiently repeated observations; so that now, whoso sees
merely the print of a cleft foot may conclude that the animal which left ..."
6. Outlines of Physiology, Human and Comparative by John Marshall (1868)
"... in the elephant five, inclosed in one mass ; but the foot, though broader for
carrying weight, loses in firmness. In the cleft foot of the Humiliants, ..."
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