DEFINE ME!!!

1. What is the plate of keratin that lies on the tips of the fingers and toes?

• bone

• nail

• skin

• lunula

2. What is the overlapping epidermis around the nail?

• cuticle

• lunula

• free edge

• nail bed

3. What the folds of skin that overlap the sides of the nail?

• nail

• nail bed

• nail wall

• nail plate

4. Nail plate is visible nail that rests on the nail bed up to the _____________.

• free edge

• freed

• free will

• freedom

5. It is the part of the nail that can be filed and shaped.

• cuticle

• free edge

• matrix

• lunula

6. What do you call to the only living reproducing part of the nail?

• lunula

• matrix

• nail plate

• nail walls

7. What do you call the pearly colored and crescent shaped structure of the nail?

• lunula

• matrix

• nail plate

• nail walls

8. What is composed of layers of keratinized skin cells?

• nail plate

• nail wall

• nail bed

• free edge

What is a part of the epidermis under the free edge of

the nail plate?

• free edge

• Hyponychium

• lunula

• nail walls

10.The function of the __________ is to keep the nail growing in a straight line.

• lunula

• nail bed

• nail wall

• nail grooves