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NAIL DISEASES AND NAIL

DISORDER
 . NAIL DISEASES - Specific types of nail
discoloration and changes in growth rate can be
signs of lung, heart, kidney, and liver diseases, as
well as diabetes and anemia

 NAIL DISORDER - are a large group of conditions


that affect the appearance of fingernails and toenails.
  .

NAIL DISORDER
 

CHARACTERISTICS
BLUE NAILS - IT IS BLUSH
IN COLOR, MAYBE
ATTRIBUTED TO POOR
BLOOD CIRCULATION
BRITTLE – IT IS A
VERTICAL SPLITTING
ORSEPARATION OF THE
NAIL PLATE LAYERS AT
THE DISTAL
(FREE)EDGE OF THE
NAIL PLATE
BRUISED NAIL – IT
SHOWS DARK
PURPLISH
(ALMOST BLACK
OR BROWN) SPOT
IN THE NAOLO.
EGG SHELL NAIL
– THE NAIL PLATE
SEPARATES
FRONM THE NAIL
BED AND CURVES
AT THE FREE
EDGE
FURROWS – THESE
ARE LONG RIDGES
THAT RUN EITHER
LENGTHWISE OR
ACROSS THE NAIL.
HANG NAIL – IT IS A
CONDITION IN WHICH
THE CUTICLE SPLITS
AROUND THE NAIL.
LECONYCHIA OR
WHITE SPOT – WHILE
SPOT APPEARS
FREQUENTLY IN THE
NAIL.
PTERYGIUM – ITS IS AN
OVERGROWTH OF
CITICLE WHICH STICKS
OF THE SURFACES OF
THE NAIL PLATE.
ONYCHATROPHIA – IT
IS DESCRIBE OR
WASTING AWAY OF THE
NAIL.
ONYCHAUXIS OR
HYPERTROPHY – IT IS AN
OVERGROWTH THE NAIL
USUALLY IN THCKNESS
RATHER THAN LENGTH.
ONYCHOPHAGY OR
BITTEN NAIL – IT IS A
DEFORMATY OF NAIL
PLATE CAUSE BY
BITTING NAILS.
ONYCHORRHEXIS OR SPLIT
OR BITTEN NAILS – IT
RFERS TO SPLIT OR
BRITTLE NAILS CAUSED AN
INJURY TO THE FINGER
CARELESS FILLING OF THE
NAIL EXERCESSIVE USE OF
CUTICLE SOLVENTS AND
NAIL POLISH REMOVERS.
RIDGES – IT IS CAUSED BY
UNENEN GROWTH OF THE
NAILS,USUALLY RESULTING
FROM ILLNESS.
TREATING CUTS – IT IS
CAUSED BY AN ACCIDENT
DURING MANICURE
SERVICE.
 NAIL DISEASES
CHARACTERISTICS
ONYCHOMYCOSIS – IT
IS AN INFECTIONS
DISEASE CAUSED BY
A VEGETABLE
PARASITE.
ONYCHIA – IS A TERM
APPLICABLE TO CHRONIC
INFLAMMATION OF THE
NAIL FOLD AND NAIL BED
(MATRIX).
ONYCHOCRYPTOSIS – IT
IS REFFERED TO
INGROWN NAILS WHICH
AFFECTS THE FINGER
AND TOE NAIL.
ONYCHOPTOSIS – IT IS
THE PERIODIC SLEDDING
OF ONE OR MORE
NAILS,EITHER IN THE
WHOLE OR IN PART.
ONYCHOLISIS – IT
REFERS TO THE
DETACHMENT OF THE
NAIL FROM THE NAIL
BED,STARTING AT ITS
DISTAL AND/OR
LATERAL ATTACHMENT.
ONYCHOGRYPHOSIS OR
CLAW NAILS – IT PERTAINS
TO EXTREME THICKENING
CURVATURE OF THE N
AIL,USUALLY IT IS CAUSED
BAY VARYING DEGREE OF
HYPERKERATOSIS.
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NORIEL JEED SUMALING 11-HARMONY

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