| azure lunula of nails | Bluish nonblanching discoloration of the lunulae of all the fingernails in hepatolenticular degeneration. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| bone nails | Rods of bone, metal, or other material used for fixation of the fragments or ends of fractured bones. (12 Dec 1998) |
| geographic stippling of nails | Regularly arranged longitudinal stippling found commonly in psoriasis and occasionally in alopecia areata. See: nail pits. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ringworm of nails | A fungal infection that involves the fingernails. Nails generally split, flake and grow too thick. (27 Sep 1997) |
| ringworm of the nails | The most common fungus infection of the nails (onychomycosis). Onychomycosis makes the nails look white and opaque, thickened, and brittle. Older women (perhaps because oestrogen deficiency may increase the risk of infection). And men and women with diabetes or disease of the small blood vessels (peripheral vacscular disease) are at increased risk. Artificial nails (acrylic or wraps ) increase the risk because when an artificial nail is applied, the nail surface is usually abraded with an emery board damaging it, emery boards can carry infection, and. Water can collect under the nail creating a moist, warm environment for fungal growth. Alternative names include tinea unguium and dermatophytic onychomycosis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hippocratic nails | The coarse curved nail's capping clubbed digits (hippocratic fingers). (05 Mar 2000) |
| nails, ingrown | Excessive lateral nail growth into the nail fold. Because the lateral margin of the nail acts as a foreign body, inflammation and granulation may result. It is caused by improperly fitting shoes and by improper trimming of the nail. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nails, malformed | Deformities in nail structure or appearance, including hypertrophy, splitting, clubbing, furrowing, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nails, ringworm of the | See Nail infection, fungal. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Terry's nails | A white, ground-glass-like opacity of the nail's with a zone of normal pink at the distal edge of the nail's; associated with liver disease (most commonly, cirrhosis of the liver). (05 Mar 2000) |
| acoustic spots | See: macula of utricle, macula of saccule. Bitot's spots, small, circumscribed, lusterless, grayish white, foamy, greasy, triangular deposits on the bulbar conjunctiva adjacent to the cornea in the area of the palpebral fissure of both eyes; occurs in vitamin A deficiency. (05 Mar 2000) |
| blood spots | Haemorrhagic graafian follicles seen in ovaries of mice, caused by injection of urine of pregnant women; a positive result in the now obsolete Aschheim-Zondek test for pregnancy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Graefe's spots | Small areas over the vertebrae or near the supraorbital foramen, pressure upon which causes relaxation of blepharofacial spasm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rose spots | Characteristic exanthema of typhoid fever; 10-20 small pink papules on the lower trunk lasting a few days and leaving hyperpigmentation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Roth's spots | A round white retina spot surrounded by haemorrhage in bacterial endocarditis, and in other retinal haemorrhagic conditions. (05 Mar 2000) |