Nail Diseases 1
Rapidly growing and contagious bacteria; usually appears as yellow-green and can get progressively darker
Psuedomonas Aeruginosa
A rare and serious form of cancer that begins in the nail matrix
Nail Melanoma
Depressions running across the width of a nail
Beau's lines
Dark purplish spots generally due to an injury
Bruised nail bed
The portion of the nail that extends over the tip of the finger
Free edge
Nail surface pitting and roughness in which the nail looks like it has been roughly filed
Nail Psoriasis
This is observed as the nail growing into the sides of the tissue around the nail, commonly called an ingrown toenail
Onychocryptosis
Onychophagy
Whitish discolored spots on the nails, usually caused to minor damage to the nail matrix and grow along with the nail
Leukonychia
The area where the nail plate cells are formed and extends under the nail fold at the nail plate's base
Matrix
This is a severe nail inflammation, in which a lump of red tissue grows up from the nail bed to the nail plate
What is Pyogenic Granuloma?
A general term for any natural nail deformity or disease
Onychosis
Irregular stretching of the eponychium or hyponychium around the nail plate
Nail pterygium
Damaged skin around the nail plate due to being split or torn
Hangnail
The slightly thickened layer of skin between the fingertip and the nail plate's free edge
Hyponychium
Matrix inflammation and nail shedding caused by infection or injury
Onychosis
A fungal infection of the nail plate, white patches can be both observed and scraped off of the nail's surface
Onychomycosis
Irregular split or brittle nails, generally caused by heredity, injury or excessive exposure to nail files, cuticle removers or polish remover
Onychorrhexis
Rounded nails, also called "trumpet nail"
Pincer nails
Nonliving, colorless tissue that is attached to the nail plate that comes from the eponychium
Cuticle
A bacterial infection where the tissues around the nail plate become inflamed causing pus, swelling, and redness
Paronychia
Separation of the nail plate from the nail bed, usually after an injury or illness
Onycholysis
A regularly shaped nail bed with a nail plate that curve into surrounding tissue
Plicatured nail
Damage due to capillaries under the nail
Splinter hemorrhage
The tissue that connects the nail bed and nail plate
Bed epithelium