Madura
(ˈmædʊrə)
The name of a district of Madras, used attrib. in Madura foot, a disease of the foot common in Madura and other parts of India; = mycetoma. Also Madura disease.
| 1863 W. T. Fox Skin Dis. Parasitic Orig. 15 In the Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay for 1860, is a description by Dr. H. V. Carter, of a disease occurring in many parts of India, called variously ‘Ulcus grave’, ‘Morbus tuberculosis pedis’, ‘Madura foot’, ‘Podelkoma’, ‘Mycetoma’. 1868 J. H. Nelson Madura Country i. iv. 91 Its classical name is morbus pedis entophyticus; but it is better known in this District by the name of ‘the Madura foot’. 1871 J. S. Bristowe in Trans. Pathol. Soc. Lond. XXII. 326 The fungus of the Madura foot. 1874 Q. Jrnl. Microscop. Sci. XIV. 263 On the Etiology of Madura-foot. |