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29 Cards in this Set
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Nails turn variety of colors; may indicate systemic disorder
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Blue nails (discolored nails)
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Dark purplish spots; usually due to injury
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Bruised nails
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Wavy ridges caused by uneven nail growth; usually esult of illness or injury
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Corrugations
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Noticeably thin white nail plate that is more flexible than normal; may be caused by diet, illness, or medication
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Eggshell nails
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Depressions in the nail that run either lenthwise or across the nail; result from illness or injury, stress, or pregnancy
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Furows
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The cuticle splits around the nail
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Hangnail (Agnail)
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Redness, pain, swelling, or pus; refer to physician
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Infected finger
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Whitish discoloration of the nails; usually caused by injury to the base of the nail
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Leukonychia (white spots)
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Darkening of the fingernails or toenails
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Melanonychia
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Atrophy or wasting away of the nail; caused by injury or disease
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Onychatrophia
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Overgrowth in thickness of the nail; caused by local infection, internal imbalance, or may be hereditary
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Onychauxis (hypertrophy)
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Bitten nails
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Onychophagy
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Abnormal brittleness with striation (lines) of the nail plate
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Onychorrhexis
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Folded nails
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Plicatured nail
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Forward growth of the cuticle
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Pterygium
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Increased crosswise curvature throughout the nail plate
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Tile-shaped nails
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Edges of the nail plate curl around the form the shape of a trumpet or cone around the free edge
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Trumpet nails (pincer nails)
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Inflammation of the matrix with pus and shedding of the nail
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Onychia
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Ingrown nails
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Onychocryptosis
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Thickening and increased curvature of the nail
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Onychogryposis
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Loosening of the nail without shedding
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Onycholysis
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Serparation and falling off of a nail from the nail bed
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Onychomadesis
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Growth of horny ephithelium in the nail bed
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Onychophosis
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Periodic shedding of one or more nails
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Onychoptosis
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Bacterial inflammation of the tissues around the nail; pus, thickening, and brownish discoloration of the nail plate
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Paronychia (felon)
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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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Pyogenic granuloma
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Reddened patches of small blisters; slight or severe itching
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Tinea (ringworm)
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Depp, itchy, colorless blisters
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Tinea pedis (ringworm of the foot or athlete's foot)
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Whitish patches on the nail that can be scraped off or long yellowish streaks within the nail substance
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Tinea unguium (onychomycosis or ringworm of the nails)
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