Congenital Abnormality
vertical talus
ver·ti·cal ta·lus
Definitions related to vertical talus:
  • Congenital severe form of flatfoot involving dislocation of the NAVICULAR BONE OF FOOT on the TALUS.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (rocker bottom foot) The presence of both a prominent heel and a convex contour of the sole.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
  • Congenital vertical talus (CVT) is an uncommon disorder of the foot, manifested as a rigid rocker-bottom flatfoot. Its characteristic radiographic feature is a dorsal dislocation of the navicular on the talus.
    Medscape
    WebMD, 2019
  • Congenital vertical talus, sometimes called " rocker-bottom foot," is a rare birth defect of the foot in which the talus bone has formed in the wrong position and other foot bones have shifted on top of it. As a result, the front of the foot points up and the bottom of the foot is stiff and has no arch (flatfoot), usually curving outward...
    NIH Genetic and Rare Diseases
    National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
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