Nail structure and growth

Question 1

The heart protective plate located at the end of the finger or toe is called what?

Answer 1

Natural nail

Question 2

The fingernails and toenails are part of which body system?

Answer 2

Integumentary system

Question 3

The ______ of the nails can reflect the general heath of the body?

Answer 3

Overall appearance

Question 4

Which of the following is technically referred to as the onyx?

Answer 4

The natural nail

Question 5

The natural note is primarily composed of what substance?

Answer 5

Keratin

Question 6

A normal healthy nail is firm and flexible, shiny, slightly pink in color with a ____ surface?

Answer 6

Smooth

Question 7

The keratin in natural nails is _______ the keratin in hair or skin

Answer 7

More durable than

Question 8

The nail plate is relatively _____ to water, allowing it to pass much more easily than it will pass the normal skin of equal thickness.

Answer 8

Porous

Question 9

The lower the water content, and now the ______ the nail becomes.

Answer 9

More rigid

Question 10

What is the portion of living skin that supports the nail plate it grows towards the edge is called the what?

Answer 10

Nail bed

Question 11

The area under the nail plate has a ____ appearance, extending from the lunula to before the edge of the nail.

Answer 11

Pinkish

Question 12

Where are the nail plate cells formed?

Answer 12

The matrix

Question 13

What is the whitish half moon shape at the base of the nail called?

Answer 13

The lunula

Question 14

The matrix area contains nerves, lymph, and _____ to nourish the matrix cells.

Answer 14

The matrix

Question 15

What is the most visible and functional part of the nail unit.

Answer 15

Nail plate

Question 16

The free edge ______

Answer 16

Extends over the tip of the finger or toe.

Question 17

The cuticle is dead, ______ tissue attached to the plate.

Answer 17

Colorless

Question 18

Cuticle tissue is incredibly ____ and difficult to remove from the nail plate.

Answer 18

Sticky

Question 19

The living skin at the base of the plate covering the matrix area is the _____

Answer 19

Eponychium

Question 20

What is the slightly thickened layer of skin that lies between the fingertip and the free edge of the nail plate called?

Answer 20

Hyponychium

Question 21

A tough band of fibrous tissue that connects bones or holds on an organ in place is called what?

Answer 21

A ligament

Question 22

No technicians are allowed to gently push back the eponychium but are prohibited from cutting or trimming any part of the eponychium because it is _____

Answer 22

Living skin

Question 23

Cuticle conditioners are designed for the eponychium, lateral sidewalls, and _____

Answer 23

Hyponychium

Question 24

Cuticle removers, when carefully applied to the nail plate, can speed removal of _____

Answer 24

Cuticle tissue

Question 25

Ligaments are located at the base of the _____ and around the edges of the nail bed.

Answer 25

Matrix

Question 26

The _____ are folds of normal skin that surround the nail plate.

Answer 26

Nail folds

Question 27

The sidewall also called the ____ is the fold of skin overlapping the side of the nail.

Answer 27

Lateral nail fold

Question 28

A normal nail grows forward from the ____ and extends over the tip of the finger.

Answer 28

Matrix

Question 29

The length, width and curvature of the ____ determine the thickness ,width and curvature of the natural nail plate.

Answer 29

Matrix

Question 30

What can be done to make the nail plate grow quicker?

Answer 30

Nothing

Question 31

Nails grow slowest at what time of the year?

Answer 31

Winter

Question 32

The nail of what finger grows the fastest?

Answer 32

The middle finger

Question 33

Nails of _____ grow at a slower rate than others.

Answer 33

The elderly

Question 34

Because of hormonal changes in the body, nail growth, ____ during the first trimester of the pregnancy.

Answer 34

Increases dramatically

Question 35

What causes the dramatic increase and decrease in the rate of nail growth during an after pregnancy?

Answer 35

Hormonal changes

Question 36

Compared to the matrix found on the fingernails the matrix found on toenails is _____

Answer 36

Longer

Question 37

Compared to the fingernails, toenails grow _____

Answer 37

Slower

Question 38

How long does the replacement of the natural fingernail take?

Answer 38

4-6 months

Question 39

How long does it take for the natural replacement of a toenail?

Answer 39

9-12 months

Question 40

The natural nail is considered an appendage of the ____

Answer 40

Skin

Question 41

The surface of a normal healthy nail ____

Answer 41

Is unspotted

Question 42

Oil based nail conditioners _____

Answer 42

Can improve flexibility

Question 43

Nail folds form the nail groove or _____ on each side of the nail.

Answer 43

Furrow

Question 44

As a person ages, part of the nail matrix begin to permanently slow down production, causing the plate to develop a series of _____ running the length of the plate.

Answer 44

Narrow grooves