DORLAND NAIL DYSTROPHIES

Question 1

spoon shaped nails

Answer 1

Koilionychia

Question 2

atrophy of nails

Answer 2

Onychoatrophia

Question 3

overgrowth or thickening of the nail caused by trauma

Answer 3

Onychauxsis

Question 4

excision of a nail or nail bed

Answer 4

Onychectomy

Question 5

inflammation of the nail matrix resulting in the shedding of the nail plate

Answer 5

Onychia

Question 6

breaking of the nail plate

Answer 6

Onychoclasis

Question 7

malformation of nail plate

Answer 7

Onychodystrophy

Question 8

a deformed overgrowth of the nail plate producing a hook

or incurvation

Answer 8

Onychogryphosis

Question 9

loosening or separation of all or part of the nail plate from the bed

Answer 9

Onycholysis

Question 10

complete shedding of the nail

Answer 10

Onychomadesis

Question 11

softening of nail plate

Answer 11

Onychomalacia

Question 12

habit of biting the nails

Answer 12

Onychophagia

Question 13

one who has the habit of biting nails

Answer 13

Onychophagist

Question 14

calloused nail groove or lip

Answer 14

Onychophosis

Question 15

spontaneous longitudinal
splitting or breaking of the
nails

Answer 15

Onychorrhexsis

Question 16

neurotic picking at the nails

Answer 16

Onychotilliomanina

Question 17

inflammation of the nail matrix or nail bed

Answer 17

Onychia

Question 18

Inflammation involving the folds of tissue surrounding the nail. Ungual labial or proximal nail fold inflammation

Answer 18

Paronychia