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I think Big Toe is usually Hallux.
Hallux valgus is a bunion.
(Valgus is pointing inward; cf. varus, pointing outward. Both are also used for knees - knock-kneed is genu valgum, bowlegged is genu varum. Genu = knee, as you might gather, as in genuflect = bend the knee.)
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