Natural Nail Unit
Includes all parts of the finger from the tip to the 1st knuckle.
What is the natural nail unit?
Skin folds that surround the nail plate.
What is the nail fold?
Hardened keratin plate that sits on top of the nail bed.
What is the nail plate?
Tough band of fibrous tissue that connects bones or holds an organ in place.
What is a ligament?
Affected by nutrition, exercise, and overall health.
What is the nail plate's growth?
The natural nail is technically referred to as the.
What is the onyx?
Slit or furrow on the side of the nail.
What is nail groove?
The part of the nail plate that extends over the top of the finger or toe.
What is the free edge?
Nonliving colorless tissue attached to the nail plate.
What is the cuticle?
Can make the nail plate grow thicker.
Nothing.
Firm, flexible, shiny, and slightly pink.
What is a healthy nail?
Folds of skin that line the sides of the nail plate; sidewalls.
What is the lateral nail fold?
A.k.a sterile matrix; the portion of living skin that supports the nail plate as it grows toward the free edge.
What is the nail bed?
The visible part of the matrix that extends from underneath the living skin.
What is the lanula?
The average nail plate growth rate in the typical adult.
What is 1/10 to 1/8 inch per month?
Natural nails are comprised mostly of.
What is keratin?
Entire flap of skin covering the matrix, extending from the edge of the visible nail plate to the first joint of the finger or toe.
What is the proximal nail fold?
Where the nail plate cells are formed and extends from under the nail fold at the nail plates base.
What is the matrix?
The living skin underneath the PNF found at the nail plate's base covering the matrix area.
What is the eponychium?
Fingernail grows the most quickly.
What is the middle finger?
Surface of a nail is.
What is usually smooth and unspotted with no splits or deep grooves?
Collectively; the nail bed, nail fold, eponychium, paronychium, and hyponychium.
What is the perionychium?
Thin layer tissue between the nail plate and the nail bed.
What is the bad epithelium?
Slightly thickened skin layer between the fingertip and the nail plates free edge.
What is the hyponychium?
To fully replace a toenail takes about.
What is 9 months to 1 year?