(medicine) A tropical disease of unknown etiology that is peculiar to black males, in which a toe is slowly and spontaneously amputated by a fibrous ring.
| Sci-Tech Dictionary: ainhum |
(medicine) A tropical disease of unknown etiology that is peculiar to black males, in which a toe is slowly and spontaneously amputated by a fibrous ring.
| spontaneous amputation (medicine) | |
| Pseudo-ainhum | |
| Ainhum |
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