Nail Disorders and disease
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Nail Disorder | Caused by injury or disease
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Hemotoma/Bruised | Dark purple spot under the nail
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Onychomalacia | Egg Shell Nail noticeably thin white nail plates that are more flexible than normal
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Beau's Lines | Visible depressions running across the width of the natural nail plate. The matrix slows down production of nail cells
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Agnail/Hangnail | the living skin around the nail plate splits or tears
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Signs of Infection | redness pain swelling redness or puss
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Leukonychia Spots | white spots caused by injury to nail matrix
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Melanonychia | Darkening of the fingernails or toenails
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Onychophagy | Bitten Nails
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Plicatured Nail | Highly curved nail plate also called folded nail and often leads to ingrown nails.
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Nail Pterygium | An abnormal condition that occurs when skin is stretched by the nail plate.
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Ridges | Raised lines in the nail bed that run down the length of the natural nail plate.
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Splinter hemorrhages | Trauma to the nail damages the capillaries allowing a small amount of blood to flow and stain the nail bed causing the appearance of a "splinter" under the nail.
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Pincer Nail | Increased curvature of the nails, has the appearance of a "pinched nail"
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Trumpet Nail | Increased curvature of the nails, the nail spirals giving the appearance of a "trumpet"
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Fungus | Living parasites that can infect hands and nails.
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Pseudomonas Aeruginosa | Staphylococcus aureus bacteria infection (staph infection) in which the naturally occurring bacteria of the nail grows rapidly discoloring the nail with a yellow green spot that gets darker.
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Onychosis | is any deformity or disease of the nails
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Onychocryptosis | The nail has grown into the tissue surrounding the nail plate, also called ingrown nails
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Onycholysis | lifting of the nail plate without shedding the nail
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Onychomadesis | the separation and falling off of the nail plate from the bed
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Nail Psoriasis | tiny pits or severe roughness on the surface of the nail plate
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Paronychia | a bacterial inflammation of the tissues surrounding the nail
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Pyrogenic Granuloma | severe inflammation of the nail in which a lump of red tissue grows up from the nail bed to the nail plate
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Tinea Pedis | medical term for fungal infections of the feet also called athletes feet
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Onychomycosis | fungal infection of the nail plate
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