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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A hamartoma is a kind of benign tumor (from the Greek ‘hamartia’- error). Especially eggcornish on the rare occasions when it’s mixed up with feet and hammer toes. Rare (note that the second example below is from a book by Richard Lederer, who spotted this first)-
With hammer toes and bunions, I guess you might occasionally find a hammertoma.
www.histosearch.com/histonet/Aug00/Re.H … ionsA.html
The Revenge of Anguished English… by Richard Lederer
Examination of the patient’s foot revealed a hammertoma.
books.google.com/books?isbn=0312334931…
orthopedic pathology: arthroscopy specimens
HOW are you going to identify the occasional hammertoma?
www.mailman.srv.ualberta.ca/pipermail/p … 00502.html
Now, after the long ordeal with the misdiagnosis (of hammertoma) of the liver wedge that was taken out when Alysa had her surgery…
alysa-anne.com/updates.htm
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