TLE 7 3rd Quarter Reviewer

half-moon shaped point

• Cuticle

• Free edge

• Hyponychium

• Lunula

Overlapping skin

• Cuticle

• Free edge

• Hyponychium

• Lunula

Can be filed and shaped

• Cuticle

• Free edge

• Hyponychium

• Lunula

Attaches to the underside of the nail

• Cuticle

• Free edge

• Hyponychium

• Lunula

Where the nail is made, living part of the nail.

• Mantle

• Matrix

• Nail bed

• Nail Plate

Underneath the nail plate

• Mantle

• Matrix

• Nail bed

• Nail Plate

Sits on top of the nail bed

• Mantle

• Nail Walls

• Nail bed

• Nail Plate

Skin covering matrix and nail base

• Mantle

• Nail Walls

• Nail bed

• Nail Plate

Skin on both sides of the nail plate

• Mantle

• Nail Walls

• Nail bed

• Nail Plate

Shape of the nail that allowing the nail to grow out straight and then filing the tip straight across at right angles.

• Almond

• Rounded

• Oval

• Square

• Squared oval