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Nail Diseases and Nail Disorder 1
Nail Diseases and Nail Disorder 1
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
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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