an inflammation and swelling of the bursa at the base of the big toe, with a thickening of the skin
Origin of bunion
from dialect, dialectal (E Anglian) bunny from Middle English boni, swelling from Old French buigne: see bunbunion
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bunion
noun
A painful, inflamed swelling of the bursa at the first joint of the big toe, characterized by enlargement of the joint and lateral displacement of the toe.
Origin of bunion
Probably alteration of obsolete bunny swelling from Middle English bony perhaps from Old French bugne ; see bun 1.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural bunions)
Origin
From alteration of earlier bunny (“lump, swelling”), from Middle English bony, boni (“bunion, swelling”); or perhaps from Italian bugnone (“a knob, boil, blain”), an augmented form of Italian bugno (“beehive”); both Middle English and Italian words from Old French bugne, buigne, bune (“bump, knob, swelling”), from Old Norse bunga (“an elevation, bulge”) or from Old Frankish *bungjo (“a swelling, lump, bump”), both Old Norse and Old Frankish from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“lump, clump, heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognate with Dutch bonk (“lump, clump”), German Bunge (“swelling, tuber”).
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bunion - Medical Definition
n.
A painful, inflamed swelling of the bursa at the first joint of the big toe, characterized by enlargement of the joint and lateral displacement of the toe.
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