Path. [L. vārus knock-kneed.] A physical deformity in which the foot is turned inwards.
1800. Med. Jrnl., IV. 192. It may be granted too, that he has cured by this instrument, some deformity that he calls varus, or valgus.
1836–9. Todd’s Cycl. Anat. & Phys., II. 349/1. The astragalus sometimes projects in front, and lower than in the varus.
1854. in T. Bryant, Pract. Surg. (1884), II. 339. In inveterate varus the treatment might well be commenced … by ablation of the os cuboides.
