Ch. 6 Nail Disorders and Diseases

Damaged skin around the nail plate become split or torn.

• Paronychia

• Nail psoriasis.

• Pincer nail

• Hangnail

This is a sign of an infected finger, and you must refuse services.

• Soft

• Pus

• Smooth

• Dryness

Also known as trumpet nail; A form of dramatically increased nail curvature.

• Nail pterygium.

• Pincer nail

• Onychia

• Eggshell nail

Significant nail darkening caused by increased pigment cells.

• Onycholysis

• Nail psoriasis

• Melanonychia

• Bruised nail bed

Which nail disease require the attention of a physician.

• Hangnail

• Plicatured nail

• Bruised nail bed

• Paronychia

Bacterial inflammation of the tissues around the nail plate, causing pus, swelling, and redness.

• Paronychia

• Tinea Pedis

• Onychomycosis

• Eggshell nails

Nails that turn a variety of colors may indicate surface staining.

• Eggshell nail

• Plicatured nail

• Bruised nail

• Discolored nail

Also known as athletes' foot; seen as red patches or scaling of the skin on the bottom of the feet or between the toes.

• Onycholysis

• Paronychia

• Splinter hemorrage

• Tinea pedis

Sever nail inflammation, in which a lump of red tissue grows up from the nail bed to the nail plate.

• Pincer nail

• Bruised nail bed

• Pyogenic granuloma

• Beau's lines

Depressions running across the nail plate's width due to a slowing production of matrix cells.

• Pincer nail

• Ridged nail

• Beau's lines

• Hangnail