trench foot

English

Noun

trench foot (uncountable)

1. A medical condition which can affect the feet when they are constantly cold and wet, similar to frostbite.

   Synonym: immersion foot

   • 2008 June 23, Andy Sully, “I got trench foot at Glastonbury”, in BBC News‎^[1]:

     Every year I can, I go to the Glastonbury Festival and pick up a T-shirt or two as a memento. But last year's souvenir was unexpected and certainly unwelcome. I came home with trench foot. […] Trench foot - or Immersion Foot as it is more properly known - occurs when blood vessels restrict their flow to extremities to conserve heat for the body.

Translations

medical condition

• Dutch: loopgravenvoeten m pl
• Estonian: kaevikpöid
• French: pied de tranchée (fr) m
• German: Immersionsfuß m
• Greek: πους των χαρακωμάτων n (pous ton charakomáton), πόδι των χαρακωμάτων n (pódi ton charakomáton)
• Polish: stopa okopowa (pl) f, stopa immersyjna f
• Russian: транше́йная стопа́ f (tranšéjnaja stopá)
• Spanish: pie de trinchera m

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Further reading

• trench foot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia