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Barber Vocab Ch 20
Milady's Standard Professional Barbering 2006
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cuticle | toughened skin around the base of the nail |
| free edge | part of the nail plate that extends over the top of the finger |
| hangnails | condition in which the cuticle splits around the nail |
| leukonychia | condition of white spots on the nails due to air bubbles, bruising, or injury to the nail |
| lunula | half-moon shape at the base of the nail |
| melanonychia | darkening of the nail due to increased and localized pigment in the matrix bed |
| nail | an appendage of the skin; horny protective plate at the end of the finger or toe |
| nail bed | portion of the skin on which the nail plate rests |
| nail folds | folds of normal skin around the nail plate |
| nail plate | horny plate resting on and attached to the nail bed |
| nail root or matrix bed | where the nail is formed |
| onyx | technical term for nail |
| onychatrophia | wasting away of the nail |
| onychauxis | thick overgrowth of the nail |
| onychia | inflammation of the matrix with pus, redness, swelling, and shedding of the nail |
| onychocryptosis | ingrown nails |
| onycholysis | loosening of the nail without shedding |
| onychomadesis | the separation and falling off of the nail from the nail bed |
| onychophagy | bitten nails |
| onychoptosis | shedding of one of more nails, in hole or in part |
| onychorrhexis | abnormal brittleness of the nail plate |
| onychosis | technical term applied to any deformity or disease of the nail |
| paronychia | bacterial infection of the tissures surrounding the nail |
| pterygium | forward growth of the cuticle with adherence to the nail surface |
| pyrogenic granuloma | severe inflammation of the nail in which a lump of red tissue grows up from the nail bed to the nail plate |
| tinea unguium | ringworm of the nail |