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Cosmotology Ch 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a condition by injury or disease of the nail unit | Nail disorder |
| condition in which blood clots from under the nail plate, causing a dark purplish color | Bruised nail |
| noticeably than, white nail plates than are more flexible than normal | Eggshell nail |
| visible depressions running across the width of the natural nail plate | Beau's lines |
| aka agnail; a condition in which the living skin around the nail plate splits or tears | Hangnails |
| aka white spots; whitish discolorations of the nails, usually caused by injury to the nail matrix | Leukonychia Spots |
| darkening of the finger or toe nail | Melanonychia |
| nails that turn a variety of colors, which may indicate surface staining, a systemic disorder, or poor blood circulation | Discolored nail |
| aka bitten nails; the results of a habit of chewing the nail or the hardened, damaged sain surrounding the nail | Onychophagy |
| split or brittle nails that have a series of length wise ridges giving a rough appearances to the surface of the nail plate | Oychorrhexis |
| aka folded nail; a type of highly curved nail plate usually caused by injury to the matrix, but it may be inherited | Pilactured nail |
| vertical lines running down the length of the natural nail plate that are caused by uneven growth of the nails, usually the result of normal aging | Ridges |
| an abnormal condition that occurs when the sinus stretched by the nail plate | Nail pterygium |
| caused by physical trauma or injury to the nail bed that damages the capillanes and allows small animals of blood to flow | Splinter hemorrhages |
| aka trumpet nails, increased crosswise curvature throughout the nail plate caused by an increase curvature of the matrix | Pincer nail |
| one of several common bacteria that can cause nail infection | Pseudomonas aeruginasa |
| any deformity or disease of the natural nail | onychosis |
| inflammation of the nail matrix, followed by shedding of the natural nail | onychia |
| aka ingrown nails, nail grows in the sides of the tissues around the nail | onychocryptosis |
| lifting of the nail plate from the nail bed without sheading, usually begging at the free edge and continuing forward to the lunula area | onycholysis |
| The separation and falling off of a nail plate from the nail bed, affects finger nails and toe nails | onychomadesis |
| condition that affects the surface of the natural nail plate causing tiny pins or severe roughness on the nail plate | nail psorisis |
| bacterial inflammation of the tissues surrounding the nail | paronychia |
| serve inflammation of the nail in which a lamp of red tissue grows up from the nail bed to the nail plate | pyogenic Granubma |
| medical term for fungal infection on the feet | tinea pedis |
| fungal infection of the natural nail plate a common form is whitish patches that can be scraped off the surface of the nail | onychomycosis |
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