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Nail Disorders and disease

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Definition
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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