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Nail Diseases & Disorders
ingrown nails? | Onchocryptosis |
The separation and falling off of a nail plate from the nail bed? | Onychomadesis |
A bacterial inflammation of the tissues surrounding the nail? | Paronychia |
The medical term for fungal infections of the feet? | Tinea Pedis |
A severe inflammation of the nail in which a lump of red tissue grows up from the nail bed to the nail plate? | Pyogenic granuloma |
Any deformity or disease of the nail? | Onychosis |
The lifting of the nail plate from the bed without shedding? | Onycolysis |
A fugal infection of the nail plate? | Onychomycosis |
Tiny pits or serve roughness on the surface of the nail plate? | Nail Psoriasis |
An inflammation of the nail matrix followed by the shedding of the natural nail plate? | Onychia |
A condition caused by injury or disease? | Nail Disorder |
A condition in which a blood clot forms under the nail plate, forming a dark purplish spot? | Bruised |
Runs vertically down the length of the natural nail plate? | Ridges |
What conditions usually cause eggshell nails? | Improper diet, hereditary factors internal disease or medication |
A condition in which the living skin splits around the nail? | Hangnail or Agnail |
A whitish discoloration of the nails, usually caused by injury to the nail matrix? | Leukonychia |
The darkening of the fingernails or toe nails? | Melanonychia |
Bitten nails or the result of a habit that promotes the individual to chew the nail or the hardened, damage skin surrounding the nail plate? | Onychophagia |
The condition of split or brittle nails that also have a series of length wise ridges giving a rough appearance to the surface to the surface of the nail plate | Onychorrhexis |
a highly curved nail that literally means "folded nail" | Plicatured nail |
an abnormal condition that occurs when skin is stretched by the nail plate is | Nail Pterygium |
Nail pterygium is abnormal damage to the eponychium or | hyponychium |
Are parasites the under some circumstance may cause infections of th feet and hands | Fungi |
the discoloration is a bacterial infection caused by one of the several types of | Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria |
The surface of a healthy natural nail should be ------.
Redness, pain, and swelling are best described as signs of a(n) -------.
When the eponychium or other living tissue surrounding the nail plate become split or torn, a ----- occurs.
Visible depressions running across the width of the natural nail plate that are the result of major illness or injury are known as -------.
Which treatment should be suggested to an individual with a simple hangnail?
Minor damage to the matrix that produces a whitish discoloration or white spots on the nails is known as ------.
Clients with skin or nails that are infected, inflamed, or swollen should be referred to a(n) ------.
Onychomadesis is the separation and falling off of a nail plate and can typically be traced to _____.
Leukonychia spots result from ______.
Injury to the nail matrix
A dark band within the nail plate extending from the base to the free edge due to increased pigmentation is known as ____.
An individual who bites his or her nails may be said to have -------.
Split or brittle nails with a series of lengthwise ridges and a rough appearance to the surface of the nail plate is known as _____.
Excessive use of _____ can cause onychorrhexis.
A highly curved nail plate often called folded nail caused by injury to the nail matrix or inherited is a ____.
_____ often leads to ingrown nails.
Ridges running vertically down the natural nail plate are caused by ____.
Physical trauma or injury to the nail bed that damages the capillaries and allows small amounts of blood flow results in _____.
The disorder in which the edges of the nail plate curl around to form a sharp cone at the free edge is ------.
Mariah has a nail deformity. The general term for her condition is _____.
A. onyx
B. onychia
C. onychosis
D. onychophosis
Inflammation of the nail matrix followed by shredding of the natural nail plate is known as _____.
Which of the following is an infectious nail condition?
_____ refers to a fungal infection of the nail.
If a cosmetologist provides a service to a client with a fungal infection it is ______ that the cosmetologist will get that infection from the client.
A naturally occurring skin bacterium that can grow out of control and cause nail infections, incorrectly referred to as mold, is -----.
In the early stages, a typical bacterial infection on the nail plate can be identified as a _____.
Severe inflammation of the nail in which a lump of red tissue grows up from the nailbed to the nail plate is called ____.
A friend shows your paperwork from a doctor stating that he has tinea pedis. What is this condition?
Tiny pits or severe roughness on the surface of the nail plate is an indication of ____.
An ingrown nail is also called a _____.