Usually means: Progressive constriction and amputation, digit.
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  5. Ainhum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ainhum)

noun:  (medicine) A painful constriction of the base of the fifth toe, frequently followed by autoamputation, occurring predominantly in black Africans and their descendants.

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