Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or occurring on the sole of the foot.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the planta, or sole of the foot: as, a plantar muscle, tendon, or ligament; the plantar aspect of the foot or leg: correlated with palmar: often in composition: as, laminiplantar, scutelliplantar

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot.

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  • adjective Pertaining to the bottom surface (sole) of the foot, as with plantar warts. Compare palmar.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective relating to or occurring on the undersurface of the foot

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin plantāris, from planta, sole of the foot; see plat- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Latin planta ("sole of the foot").

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Examples

  • Most heel pain is of the type that goes by the name plantar fasciitis.

    canada.com Top Stories 2009

  • For warts affecting the feet (called plantar warts), the story was different.

    Give warts the big freeze 2010

  • Nowadays, you are more likely to affect your whorls by picking up a tiny virus-based skin tumor called a plantar wart (veruca), which deforms the skin striae as it grows, making the ridges go around it.

    A Rule of Thumb Heather McDougal 2008

  • Nowadays, you are more likely to affect your whorls by picking up a tiny virus-based skin tumor called a plantar wart (veruca), which deforms the skin striae as it grows, making the ridges go around it.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Heather McDougal 2008

  • For warts affecting the feet called plantar warts, the story was different.

    Give warts the big freeze 2010

  • For those of you who slept through the Podiatry 101 lecture in medical school, this condition is an irritation of the -- ahem -- plantar fascia, aka the plantar aponeurosis -- which is the ligamental structure under the foot that supports the arch.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Steve Perry 2009

  • I've been suffering from a terrible ailment called plantar fasciitis which is excruciatingly painful in the heel.

    2001-05-30 11:37 p.m. nueces 2001

  • According as the nerve operated on is the plantar or the median, the operation is known as plantar or median neurectomy.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • [Footnote A: The epithet 'ungual' is added by Chauveau to distinguish these arteries from the properly so-called plantar arteries -- the terminal divisions of the posterior tibial artery.]

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • Common warts are harmless skin lesions that are usually found on the hands or soles of the feet, the latter referred to as plantar warts.

    Penn State Live 2010

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