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Ch 4 Anatomy Flashcards

1
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Onyx

A

Nail

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Onycomycosis

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Disease of the nail due to vegetable parasitic fungus

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Onychocryptosis

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Abnormal overgrowth of the nail with inward curvature (Ram’s horn nail)

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4
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Onychosis

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general term for nail disease

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Onychomadesis

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Complete loss or shedding of the nail plate

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Onycholysis

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Nail loosens from nail bed

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Onychia

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Inflammation of entire nail unit or portion of the unit

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Onychophagy

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Bitten nail

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Pterygium

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Wing like structure abnormal scaring of the eponychium

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Hangnail

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Cuticle around nail splits

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Paronychia

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Infection of tissue around the nail

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Plicatured nail

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Deformity, edges of nail plate are folded at a 90% angle

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Trumpet/Pincer Nail

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As nail grows towards the end of fingertip, edges of nail plate begin to curl inward

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Pyogenic Granuloma

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Severe inflammation, red lump of tissue grows up from nail bed

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Specialized ligament

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Anchor the matrix and nail bed to the underlying bone

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Furrows/Corrugations

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Long lengthwise ridges or grooves

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Eponychium

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Cuticle, crescent of toughened skin around the base of the fingernails and toenails that partially overlaps the lunula (proximal)

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Hyponychium

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Toughened skin underneath the free edge

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Nail folds

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Folds of skin form the nail grooves

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Eggshell nail

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Thin, white curved over free edge

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Keratin

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Protein found in nails, skin, hair

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Lunula

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Visible portion of the matrix bed

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Melanonychia

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Dark or black band (line) on nail plate

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Fungus

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Vegetable parasite

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Leukonychia

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White spot or streaks on the nail (leukos=white)

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Mold

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Fungus infection on non living objects

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Inflammation

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Red and sore

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Infection

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Evidence of pus

29
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Matrix

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The womb, mother of the nail. The basis substance from which a thing is made or develops

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