Anatomy of the Nail
What is the Natural Nail?
the finger nail that grows the fastest
What is the middle finger?
sometimes called furrows or corrugations, visible depressions running across the width of the natural nail plate
What are Beau's lines?
also known as ram’s horn or claw nails, is an enlargement of the fingernails or toenails accompanied by increased thickening and curvature.
What is Onychogryposis?
List the four types of nail technology tools you will incorporate into your services
What are:
1. Equiptment
2. Impliments
3. Materials
4. Professional Nail products
The area where the nail plate cells are formed
What is the Matrix?
a nail that is abnormal in shape or form
What is a nail malformation?
Caused by a lack of circulation
What are blue nails?
An abnormal condition that occurs when the skin is stretched by the nail plate.
What is Nail Pterygium?
What is a consultation?
the slightly thickened layer of skin under the nail that lies between the fingertip and the free edge of the nail plate.
What is the hyponychium?
the water content of a healthy nail
What is 15%-20%?
soft spoon nails with a concave shape that appear scooped out.
What is Koilonychia?
is a severe inflammation of the nail in which a lump of red tissue grows up from the nail bed to the nail plate.
What is Pyogenic granuloma?
is a succession of strokes in which the hands glide over an area of the body with varying degrees of pressure or contact
What is Effleurage?
The living skin bordering the root and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
What is the Perionychium?
What is 1/8"?
also known as folded nail, a type of highly curved nail plate usually caused by injury to the matrix, but it may be inherited
What is a Plicatured nail?
A bacterial inflammation of the tissues surrounding the nail
What is Paronychia?
The curved line where the pink and the white meet each other on the nail
What is the Smile Line?
the living skin at the base of the natural nail plate covering the matrix area
What is the Eponychium?
What is the Integumentary system?
is darkening of the fingernails or toenails
What is Melanonychia?
one of several common bacteria that can cause a nail infection, or Staphylococcus aureus
What is Pseudomonas aeruginosa?
tiny, often unseen openings in the skin, which can allow microbes to enter the skin, leading to infection
What is Microtrauma?