[mod.L. tālipēs, -pedem, f. L. tālus ankle + pēs foot: cf. tālipedāre to walk on the ankles, to be weak in the feet, to walk lamely.]
1. Path. Club-foot; clubfootedness. Also attrib.
1857. in Dunglison, Dict. Med.
1878. A. M. Hamilton, Nerv. Dis., 240. The primary forms are those which are seen in talipes of both kinds.
1879. St. George’s Hosp. Rep., IX. 615. All cases of talipes have been submitted to subcutaneous tenotomy.
1898. P. Manson, Trop. Diseases, xiv. 245. Foot-drop should be counteracted by Phelps’s talipes splint.
2. Zool. A twisted disposition of the feet, occurring naturally in sloths.
1891. in Cent. Dict.
