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Nail Disease and Disorder

Spring exam review

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Bruised nail

Blood clot under nail forms a dark spot

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Eggshell Nails

Thin, white nail plate

More flexible than normal

Can curve over edge of finger

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Beau’s lines

Depressions running across width of nail plate

Caused by major illness or injury

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Hangnail

Agnail

Living skin around nail plate splits and tears

Never cut this living skin

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Leuchonychia spots

White spots caused by minor injury

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Melanonychia

Darkening of nails

Looks like a black band

Caused by too much melanin

More common in dark skinned people

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Onychophagy

Bitten or chewed fingernails

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Ridges

Verticle

lines running the length of the nails

More common in older people

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Splinter hemorrhages

Long thin blood stains under nails

Caused by injury

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Common pathogenic bacteria

Can grow under fake nails

Yellow to green to brown to black

Smells cheesy

We CANNOT treat it

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Onychocryptosis

Ingrown toenails

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Onycholysis

Nail plate lifts, but does not shed

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Paronychia

Bacterial infection of tissue around nail

Red, pus, swelling, pain

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Tinea Pedis

Athletes foot

Fungal infection of feet