0 a serious medical condition affecting a person's foot or feet in which the top layer of skin and flesh becomes black and dies, caused by the feet being in wet conditions for a long time:
He was especially concerned about trench foot, in which skin peels off wet feet in cold temperatures.
Without rubber boots, trench foot was rampant, and hundreds of GIs would eventually have their feet amputated.
In the winter the trenches filled with mud and trench foot was endemic.
Royal Marine officers blamed the injuries, which also included trench foot, on lack of experience in Arctic conditions.
