| A | B |
|---|
| blue nails | poor blood circulation, a heart disorder, or topical and oral medications |
| bruised nails | blood clot forms under the nail plate, forming a dark purplish spot |
| corrugations | uneven growth of the nails, usually the result of illness or injury |
| eggshell nails | noticably thin, white nail plate, are more flexible than normal |
| furrows | usually the result of illness or from injury to nail cells in the matrix |
| hangnail | when cuticle splits around the nail |
| infected finger | finger is red, painful, swollen or filled with pus |
| leukonychia | whitish discoloration of the nails, caused by injury to nail base |
| melanonychia | darkening of the fingernails or toenails |
| onychatrophia | atrophy or wasting away of the nail |
| onychauxis | overgrowth of the nail, usually in thickness rather than length |
| onychophagy | bitten nails |
| onychorrhexis | abnormal brittleness with striation of nail plate |
| plicatured nail | folded nail |
| pterygium | forward growth of the eponychium with adherence to nail surface |
| tile-shaped nails | creased crosswise curvature throughout the nail plate |
| trumpet nail | when edges of the nail plate curl around at the free edge |
| onychosis | any deformity or disease of the nails |
| onychia | inflammation of nail matrix, including pus and shedding of nail |
| onychocryptosis | ingrown nails |
| onychogryposis | thickening and increased curvature of the nail |
| onycholysis | loosening of the nail w/out shedding |
| onychomadesis | separation and falling off a nail from the nail bed |
| onychophosis | growth of hormy epithelium in the nail bed |
| onychoptosis | periodic shedding of one or more nails, in whole or in part |
| paronychia | bacterial inflammation of the tissues surrounding the nail |
| phygenic granuloma | severe inflammation; lump of red tissue grows up from nail bed |
| tinea | vegetable parasire or fungus |
| tinea pedis | athlete's foot |
| tinea unguium | ringworm of the nails |
