NAIL STRUCTURE & GROWTH

A normal, healthy nail service______________.

• is completely inflexible

• has a spotted surface

• is shiny and smooth

• is white and opaque

The _________________is the whitish, half moon shape underneath the base of the nail.

• sidewall

• lunula

• root

• free edge

The ____________is the fold of skin overlapping the side of the nail.

• eponychium

• hyponychium

• nail groove

• sidewall

Ordinarily, replacement of a natural fingernail takes about___________.

• six to twelve months

• four to six months

• six to eight months

• two to eight months

The natural is an appendage of the______________.

• dermis

• epidermis

• skin

• skeletal system

Cosmetologists are allowed to gently ______________the eponychium.

• cut

• trim

• push back

• file

Toenails are thicker than fingernails because the ____________ of the toenail is longer than that of the fingernail.

• nail bed

• matrix

• lunula

• eponychium

The living skin at the base of the natural nail plate covering the matrix area if the______________.

• eponychium

• hyponychium

• cuticle

• lunula

The thin layer of tissue that attaches the nail plate and the nail bed is the___________.

• bed eponychium

• bed epithelium

• lateral nail fold

• onyx

The__________is the area where the nail plate cells formed.

• cuticle

• lunula

• matrix

• free edge