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  2. Nail disease - Wikipedia

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    Onychorrhexis also known as brittle nails, is brittleness with breakage of fingernails or toenails. Paronychia is a bacterial or fungal infection where the nail and skin meet. Koilonychia is when the nail curves upwards (becomes spoon-shaped) due to an iron deficiency. The normal process of change is: brittle nails, straight nails, spoon-shaped ...

  3. Periungual wart - Wikipedia

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    They appear as thickened, fissured cauliflower-like skin around the nail plate. Periungual warts often cause loss of the cuticle and paronychia. Nail biting increases susceptibility to these warts. [1] Warts of this kind often cause damage to the nail either by lifting the nail from the skin or causing the nail to partially detach.

  4. Athlete's foot - Wikipedia

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    Athlete's foot is a form of dermatophytosis (fungal infection of the skin), caused by dermatophytes, funguses (most of which are mold) which inhabit dead layers of skin and digest keratin. [2] Dermatophytes are anthropophilic , meaning these parasitic funguses prefer human hosts.

  5. Yellow nail syndrome - Wikipedia

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    The nails are markedly thickened with yellow to yellow-green discoloration of the nails. [1]: 792 [6] They grow slowly, at a rate of 0.25 mm/week or less. The nails may have ridges and increased side-to-side curvature, reduction of the white crescent and detachment of the nail from the nailbed. [5] These nail abnormalities may also change over ...

  6. Cuticle - Wikipedia

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    Anatomy of the basic parts of a human nail. In human anatomy, "cuticle" can refer to several structures, but it is used in general parlance, and even by medical professionals, to refer to the thickened layer of skin surrounding fingernails and toenails (the eponychium), and to refer to the superficial layer of overlapping cells covering the hair shaft (cuticula pili), consisting of dead cells ...

  7. Onycholysis - Wikipedia

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    Onycholysis is a common medical condition characterized by the painless detachment of the nail from the nail bed, usually starting at the tip and/or sides. [1] On the hands, it occurs particularly on the ring finger but can occur on any of the fingernails.

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