How Much do you think you know about toes? How many toes do you believe you really have? Do you know that your toe is one of the most strongest parts of your body. When you tip it is the muscles in your tiny toes that lifts and hold up hundreds of pounds. Let me give you a few toe enlightenment. Below is a quick toe quiz, lets start bay seeing how much you know about the toe!
Two Cool Toe Facts
- Your Toes can replace your Fingers
In toe-to-hand surgery, toes can be used to replace missing fingers. The method was first used on humans in 1975 and is now widely used. Not every finger can be replaced, but often the big toe can be used for a missing thumb. - The Most Toes ever registered was 13.
The Guinness Book of Records currently lists a tie for the most number of fingers and toes at 25. Two Indian boys, Pranamya Menaria and Devendra Harne, each have 12 fingers and 13 toes.
polydactilism
Polydactilism is a condition which enables the growth of a more than the standard count of what is called digits in the medical world. These digits as describe is fingers, toes, legs etc. It is a condition found in many animals and humans. This is the reason why some people are born with more than the standard count for fingers toes and other external organs.
There are many people globally who has this condition. It is a genetic condition and is therefore hereditary.
Types of Toes
Okay, if you really want to first find out about a person ethnicity or even your own. Take a good look on that persons toe see if it falls into any one of the listed categories below.
- Egyptian Toes: The Egyptian genetics make up of toes comes with very strong and tall big toe. The big toe is the tallest of the group of five. From the right side of the individual, the toes then gradually descends in length forming a 45 degree angle.
- Roman Toe: The genetically make up of these toes are that the Big toe along with the adjacent two are all tapered off at the same length. The Big Toe is not that tall either. The little toe and the adjacent toe the follows a slight slope pattern.
- Greek Toe: The Big Toe is actually shorter than the second toe, Then the third toe is lightly shorter than the big toe and it then forms a descending like a 45 degrees.
- Germanic Toe: Longer Big toe and then all other 4 toes are shorter but all four are the same length. Forming what seems to be a strainer!
- Celtic Toe:Down, Up, down, down, same. That just about sums up what looks like a jigsaw puzzle with the Celtic toe.
DID YOU KNOW!
The Medical Name for Toes is Phalanges. The name is derived from the Greek word Phalanx which means a straight projection. The big toe has its own name - Hallux - and the other toes are numbered from 2 to 5 at the pinky. The long bones just behind your toes are called the metatarsals.
Now You Know!
Athletic Toes
There are those persons who have very strong looking toes, what we could call athlete toes, toes that seems to be worked out vigorously. People with what i call athlete toes are normally people who are avid gym babies. By working out the body, you eventually work out your toes also, as the toe is what supports any form of activity. People with these strong type toes are also typical athletes.Most athlete toe people are generally smart and always on the go. They are assertive in all that they do and always try to command any form of activity that is being coordinated. People with athletes toes tend to be natural born leaders, assassins, sports stars and are very brave. The Athlete toe is normally leaner than the other types of toes and most times may carry slight spaces between them than other type toes such as the beach toes. Most athlete toes fall in the Egyptian and the Greek region.
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