enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Serious health risks from biting your nails will horrify you

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/2016-02-25-it-turns-out...

    The problem doesn't stop at nails, either. Habitual nail-biters often chomp on the skin around their fingers, too, leaving open cuts and abrasions that could easily pick up even more bacteria or ...

  3. Decoupling for body-focused repetitive behaviors - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoupling_for_body...

    Decoupling [1] is a behavioral self-help intervention for body-focused and related behaviors such as trichotillomania, onychophagia (nail biting), skin picking and lip-cheek biting. The user is instructed to modify the original dysfunctional behavioral path by performing a counter-movement shortly before completing the self-injurious behavior ...

  4. Nail (anatomy) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail_(anatomy)

    A nail is a protective plate characteristically found at the tip of the digits (fingers and toes) of all primates, corresponding to the claws in other tetrapod animals. . Fingernails and toenails are made of a tough rigid protein called alpha-keratin, a polymer also found in the claws, hooves and horns of ver

  5. Blood blister - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_blister

    It consists of a pool of lymph, blood and other body fluids trapped beneath the skin. If punctured, it suppurates a dark fluid. Sometimes the fluids are cut off from the rest of the body and dry up, leaving behind dead cell material inside the blister with a texture like putty. Some blood blisters can be extremely painful due to bruising where ...

  6. Paresthesia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paresthesia

    Paresthesias of the hands, feet, legs, and arms are common transient symptoms. The briefest electric shock type of paresthesia can be caused by tweaking the ulnar nerve near the elbow; this phenomenon is colloquially known as bumping one's "funny bone". Similar brief shocks can be experienced when any other nerve is tweaked (e.g. a pinched neck ...

  7. Obscene gesture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscene_gesture

    The middle finger is still used though, and it is considered more insulting. Another variation of the middle finger is used, where all the fingers but the middle one are spread wide while moving the hand back and forth in the axis the middle finger creates. In this gesture, the thumb sometimes touches the middle finger.

  8. Leukoplakia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leukoplakia

    The lesions from a yeast infection can typically be rubbed off while those of leukoplakia cannot. [4] [14] Treatment recommendations depend on features of the lesion. [4] If abnormal cells are present or the lesion is small surgical removal is often recommended; otherwise close follow up at three to six month intervals may be sufficient. [4]

  9. Hand fetishism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_fetishism

    Female hands. Hand fetishism, [1] hand partialism or cheirophilia is the sexual fetish for hands. This may include the sexual attraction to a specific area such as the fingers, palm, back of the hand and/or nails, or the attraction to a specific action performed by the hands; which may otherwise be considered non-sexual—such as washing and drying dishes, painting of the fingernails and nail ...