GREAT TOE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does great toe mean? 

• GREAT TOE (noun)
  The noun GREAT TOE has 1 sense:

1. the first largest innermost toe

  Familiarity information: GREAT TOE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREAT TOE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The first largest innermost toe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

big toe; great toe; hallux

Hypernyms ("great toe" is a kind of...):

toe (one of the digits of the foot)

Holonyms ("great toe" is a part of...):

foot; human foot; pes (the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint)

 Context examples 

Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument (MNSI) Physical assessment; right foot - vibration perception at great toe.

(MNSI - Right Foot Vibration Great Toe, NCI Thesaurus)

But her great toe could not go into it, and the shoe was altogether much too small for her.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A reflex characterized by upward movement of the great toe and an outward movement of the rest of the toes, when the sole of the foot is stroked.

(Babinski Sign, NCI Thesaurus)

Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument (MNSI) Physical assessment; left foot - vibration perception at great toe.

(MNSI - Left Foot Vibration Great Toe, NCI Thesaurus)

A muscle in the lower leg and foot beginning at the fibula and ending with a tendon attaching to the distal surface of the great toe phalanx in order to flex the toe.

(Flexor Hallucis Longus, NCI Thesaurus)

Lateral displacement of the great toe, producing deformity of the first metatarsophalangeal joint with callous, bursa, or bunion formation over the bony prominence.

(Hallux Valgus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

So the silly girl cut off her great toe, and thus squeezed on the shoe, and went to the king’s son.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)