TLE 7 Quiz #4

What is the technical term for the natural nail?

• Lunula

• Onyx

• Matrix

• Mantle

The hardened keratin structure covering the nail bed is the __________.

• nail extension

• lunula

• nail plate

• matrix

The end portion of the nail plate that reaches over the fingertip is called the _________.

• free edge

• nail root

• nail extension

• nail fold

The living skin at the base of the natural nail plate that covers the matrix area is known as the __________.

• hyponychium

• nail bed

• mantle

• eponychium

The whitish, half-moon shape at the base of the nail is known as the __________.

• free edge

• bed epithelium

• eponychium

• lunula

The slightly thickened layer of skin under the nail that lies between the fingertip and free edge of the natural nail plate is the __________.

• eponychium

• perionychium

• hyponychium

• bed epithelium

What is this nail disorder?

• Pterygium

• Onychatrophia

• Onychauxis

• Onychophagy

The surface of a healthy natural nail should be;

• smooth and spotted 
• flexible and spotted 
• smooth and unspotted 
• pitted and rough 

A nail condition in which blood clots form under the nail plate due to a small injury of the nail plate is;

• bruised nails 
• blue nails 
• abnormal nails 
• bruised onychia

I am qualified as a cosmetologist/nail technician to advise  a client as to what diseases or disorders they have? 

• True
• False