How to Use neuroma in a Sentence

neuroma

noun
  • Trout will have surgery to remove the Morton's neuroma in his right foot sometime this week.
    — Scooby Axson, SI.com, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Johnson, who struggles with a neuroma, swears by her Oofos mules to keep it from acting up.
    — Jennifer Heimlich, SELF, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Trout will have surgery to address the Morton’s neuroma in his right foot that hampered him for a month.
    — Maria Torres, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Pain from Morton's neuroma can increase when walking in tight or narrow shoes, or high heels.
    — Sarah Richards, Verywell Health, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Cole was back on his feet in weeks, but the gradual hearing loss his acoustic neuroma had caused in his right ear could not be reversed.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2018
  • But other studies have found no evidence of acoustic neuromas or brain tumors in heavy cell phone users.
    — Charles Schmidt, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Your foot injury may be a condition known as a neuroma, which is an irritation of a nerve between your toes.
    — Harlan Selesnick, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
  • But in a small percentage of acoustic neuroma cases, the tumor stops growing.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The pathologist confirmed that the tumor was an acoustic neuroma.
    — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Sharp, aching, or radiating pain in the ball of the foot is a common symptom of both metatarsalgia and Morton’s neuroma.
    — Outside Online, 17 June 2019
  • Stafford was diagnosed earlier this month with a benign tumor called an acoustic neuroma that was sitting on her cranial nerves.
    — Kyle Meinke | [email protected], nola.com, 22 Apr. 2019
  • With Morton's neuroma, the tissue around one of the nerves to your toe can begin to thicken due to underlying stress or injury.
    — Ruth Jessen Hickman, Md, Health, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Regularly wearing high-heeled, pointed-toe shoes can cause Morton's neuroma, or scar tissue around the nerve, which leads to sharp pain.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 June 2017
  • Morton’s neuroma, the enlargement of the nerves between your foot bones, feels similar, though the pain is closer to the outside of the foot, at the third and fourth toes.
    — Outside Online, 17 June 2019
  • Plantar fasciitis and Morton’s neuroma/fibroma are afflictions that have come and gone.
    — Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Some patients with bunions, hammertoes, or Morton’s neuroma (which can cause a sensation that feels like a pebble in your shoe) require boots with a wider toe box.
    — Francesca Krempa, Travel + Leisure, 16 May 2026
  • Albright had surgery in 2009 to remove an acoustic neuroma, a benign tumor between the inner ear and brain that impairs balance.
    — Karen Nitkin, Baltimore Sun, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Anyone who has experienced foot pain such as that caused by neuroma, bunions or hammer toes knows how debilitating and discouraging these common foot problems are.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 June 2017
  • Injury updates Trout had successful surgery on right foot Friday to remove the Morton’s neuroma that had been bothering him for about a month.
    — Maria Torres, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Of particular concern are benign Schwann cell tumors called acoustic neuromas, which affect nerve cells connecting the inner ear with structures inside the brain.
    — Charles Schmidt, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The result can be numbness, tingling, burning, or sharp pain which are all signs that the nerve tissue is either trapped in scar tissue or has developed a neuroma, an abnormal healing response at the cut edge of a nerve.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 27 May 2026
  • In 2007, Bricker was diagnosed with acoustic neuroma, a noncancerous brain tumor, and needed surgery to remove it.
    — Nathan Percy, Orange County Register, 29 Mar. 2017
  • Acoustic neuromas, tumors of the nerves that affect hearing and balance, are the characteristic features of NF-2.
    — Brigid Dwyer, Verywell Health, 20 July 2024
  • In 2019, Kelly was diagnosed with acoustic neuroma, a slow-growing tumor perched on her nerve from the ear to her brain, after dealing with spells of being lightheaded.
    — Glamour, 10 Feb. 2022
  • After being diagnosed with Morton’s neuroma, which causes inflammation and severe pain in his foot, Robles went on disability this fall.
    — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Jan. 2022
  • In April 2019, Kelly shared in an emotional Instagram post that she'd been diagnosed with a benign brain tumor, an acoustic neuroma, and would be undergoing surgery.
    — Adam England, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2022
  • In April 2019, Kelly shared in an Instagram post revealing that she'd been diagnosed with a benign brain tumor, an acoustic neuroma, and would be undergoing surgery.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025

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