Easier
Damaged skin around the nail plate.
Hangnail.
Thin white nail plate, more flexible than usual.
Usually caused by diet, heredity, internal disease, medication, or over filing.
These fragile nails should avoid or minimize filing.
Eggshell Nail
Known as white nails.
Is usually not alarming but it can sometimes unmask severe systemic disorders or congenital conditions.
It can be buffed away w/ use of antifungal.
Leukonychia
Chopped or bitten nails, damaged skin around the nail plate.
Damaged skin should not be treated by the nail professional.
Hint: Chop
Onychophagy
Caused by trauma or injury
Separation of the nail bed starting at the free edge
Hint: Holy
Onycholysis
Dark Purplish spots usually due to a small nail bed injury.
Bruised Nail Bed
Trumpet nail
Nail curvature of the free edge
Pincher Nail
Nail darkening caused by increased pigment cells.
Melanonychia
Split, brittle nails resulting in ridges.
Hint: X=split
Onychorrhexis
Hint: Choma=coma=come off ventilator
Onychomadesis
Nails turn a variety of colors, may indicate surface staining, a systemic disorder, or poor blood circulation.
Discolored Nails
Lengthwise grooves in the nail plate, often mistaken for ridges, usually the result of aging
Ridged Nail
Folded Nail
Highly curved nail plate
Plicatured Nail
Refers to any natural nail deformity or disease
Onychosis
Fungal infection
Hint: homie, you got fungus
Onychomycosis
Injury or infection of the finger
Hint: red, swollen
Infected Finger
Damage to the capillaries under the nail
Caused by physical trauma or nail bed injury
Splinter Hemorrhage
Known as subungual melanoma
A rare & serious type of skin cancer that begins in the nail matrix
Nail Melanoma
Inflammation of the matrix, followed by shedding of the nail.
Hint: chiapet
Onychia
BONUS
Bacterial Inflammation of the tissue around the nail plate, causing pus, swelling, & redness
AND
Rapidly growing & contagious bacteria that can cause infection
Paronychia
AND
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa
Depressions running across the nail plates width due to a slowing production of matrix cells.
Beau's lines
Irregular stretching of the eponychium or hyponychium around the nail plate.
Nail Pterygium
Nail abnormality depending on the skin involvement
Trauma affecting the nail matrix or autoimmune disorder
Nail Psoriasis
Ingrown nail
Hint: Cry
Onychocryptosis
BONUS
Severe Nail inflammation, in which a lump of red tissue grows up from the nail bed to the nail plate
AND
Athlete's foot
Pyogenic granuloma
AND
Tinea Pedis