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29 Cards in this Set
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Discolored nails |
Nails turn variety of colors; may indicate systemic disorder |
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Bruised Nails |
Dark purplish spots; usually due to injury |
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Corrugations |
Wavy ridges caused by uneven nail growth; result of injury or illness |
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Eggshell Nails
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Noticeably thin, white plate, more flexible than normal;usually caused by improper diet, hereditary factors,internal disease, or medication
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Furrows |
Depressions in the nail that run either lengthwise or across the nail; result from illness, injury, stress , or medication |
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Hangnail |
Living skin around the nail plate (often the eponychium) becomes split or torn
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Infected Finger
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Redness, pain, swelling, or puss; refer to physician
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Leukonychia Spots
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Whitish discoloration of the nails; usually caused by minor injury to the nail matrix. Not related to the body's health or vitamin deficiencies
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Melanonychia
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Significant darkening of the fingernails or toenails
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Onychophagy
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Bitten nails
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Onychorrhexis
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Abnormal surface roughness on the nail plate
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Onychatrophia |
Atrophy or wasting away of the nail; injury or disease |
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Onychauxis (hypertrophy) |
Overgrowth in thickness of the nail; caused by infection, internal imbalance, or hereditary |
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Plicatured nails |
Folded nails |
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Pterygium |
Forward growth of the cuticle |
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Tile-shaped nails |
Increased crosswise curvature throughout the nail plate |
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Trumpet-nails (pincer nails) |
Edges of the nail plate curl around to form the shape of a trumpet or cone around the free edge |
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Onychia |
Inflammation of the matrix and shedding of the nail
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Onychocryptosis
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Ingrown toenail
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Onychogryposis |
Thickening and increased curvature of the nail |
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Onycholysis |
Loosing of the nail without shedding |
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Onychomadesis |
Separation and falling off of a nail from the nail bed |
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Onychophosis |
Growth of horny epithelium in the nail bed |
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Onychoptosis |
Periodic shedding of one or more nails |
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Paronychia |
Separation of the nail plate and bed, often due to physical injury or allergic reactions
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Pyrogenic Granuloma
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Severe inflammation of the nail which a lump of red tissue grows up from the bed to the nail plate
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Tinea |
Reddened patches of small blisters; slight or severe itching |
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Tinea pedis |
Deep, itchy, colorless blisters |
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Tinea unguium |
Whitish patches on the nail that can be scraped off or long yellowish streaks within the nail substance |
