talipes equinus

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   talipes in which the toes are pointed downward

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Questions about talipes equinus

What does talipes equinus mean?

talipes equinus means "talipes in which the toes are pointed downward".

Is talipes equinus a common word?

talipes equinus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.