Nail Structure & Growth
The natural nail is part of this Body System.
What is the Integumentary System?
The surface is smooth and unspotted.
What is the appearance of a healthy natural nail?
A fungal infection of the nail.
What is Onychomycosis?
The branch of science that applies to substances that contain carbon.
What is Organic Chemistry?
Another name for a material that is a nonconductor.
What is an Insulator?
May appear to be one solid piece but is actually constructed of 100 layers of cells.
What is the Nail Plate?
Type of nail has noticeably thin, white nail plate, and more flexible than a normal nail.
What is Egg Shell Nails?
Also known as pigment cells.
What are Melanocytes?
The simplest form of chemical matter that cannot be broken down without loss of identity.
What is an Element?
Rapid and interrupted current that flows in one direction and then in the opposite direction.
What is Alternating Current?
Part of the Nail unit that is rich with blood vessels and nerves.
What is the Nail Bed?
Treatment recommended for a client with a simple hang nail.
What is a hot oil manicure?
A nail deformity.
What is Onychosis?
The basic unit of matter, with a nucleus at the center surrounded by negatively charged electrons.
What is an Atom?
The unit that measures the resistance of an electric current.
What is an Ohm?
Slightly thickened layer of skin that lies between the fingertip and the free edge.
What is the Hyponychium?
A dark band within the nail plate extending from the base to the free edge due to increased pigment.
What is Melanonychia?
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?
The chemical combination of two or more atoms of different elements.
What is a compound?
The negative or positive pole of an electric current.
What is Polarity?
Area of the nail where the nail plate cells are formed.
What is the Matrix?
Condition often leading to ingrown nails.
What is Plicatured Nails?
Condition having tiny pits or severe roughness on the surface of the nail plate.
What is Nail psoriasis?
Substances that are used to neutralize acids or raise the pH of many hair products.
What is Alkanolamines?
A form of anaphoresis used to treat acne, milia and comedones.
What is Deincrustation?