TLE Q3 Reviewer - Nails Flashcards
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A plate of keratin that lines on the tips of the fingers and toes and produced by living skin cells in the finger
Nail
The average growth rate for nails
0.1mm each day.
(1 cm in 100 days)
The exact rate of nail growth depends on numerous factors, including the age and sex of the individual and the time of year.
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Structure of Nail
Free Edge
Nail Plate
Nail Walls
Lunula
Cuticle
Hyponychium
Nail Grooves
Nail Bed
Matrix
Mantle
The whitish half-moon at the base of the nail
Lumula
The overlapping epidermis around the nail
Cuticle
The part of the nail that can be filled and shaped
Free edge
The hidden part of the nail unit under the cuticle. It produces keratin cells that make up the nail plate
Matrix
It is where our finger nail grow
The actual fingernail, made of translucent keratin
Nail plate
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Nail Disorders
Onychatrophia
Leukonychia
Pterygium
Brittle nails
Bruised nails
Eggshell nails
An atrophy or wasting away of the nail plate which causes it to lose its luster
It becomes smaller and sometimes shed entirely
Onychatrophia
It is caused by tiny bubbles of air that are trapped in the nail plate layers due to trauma
Leukonychia
An overgrowth of cuticle which sticks to the surface of nail plate
Pterygium
A vertical splitting or seperation of the nail plate layers at the free edge of the nail plate
Brittle nails
Condition in which a blood clot forms under the nail plate, forming a dark purplish spot
Bruised nails
Noticeably thin, white nail plate that is more felible than normal
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