Nail disorder and disease

• Bruised Nail Beds


  Condition where blood clots below the nail plate, giving it a dark purplish appearance
• Eggshell Nails


  Nails are weaker and thinner than usual, giving them a more flexible structure
• Beau's Lines


  Horizontal grooves running across one side of the nail plate to the other
• Hangnails


  Piece of dry, torn skin nesting at the root of the nail
• Leukonychia


  Whitish discolorations inside the nail plate
• Melanonychia


  Condition that makes the nail plate appear black, may affect a portion or the entire nail plate
• Onychophagy


  Also known as "bitten nails", outcome of continuous chewing of the nails or the hardened and damaged skin around the nail plate
• Onychorrhexis


  Condition that gives off a rough texture to the surface of the nail plate because of a series of lengthwise ridges on a split or brittle nail
• Plicatured Nail


  Highly curved nail plate, also known as "folded nail", often leads to ingrown nails
• Nail Pterygium


  Condition where the skin is stretched by the nail plate, outcome of serious injuries like burns or the nail's negative reaction to nail products, damage is done in eponychium or hyponychium
• Splinter Hemorrhages


  Condition caused by hard impact or physical trauma to the nail bed, damages the capillaries and lets blood flow
• Nail Diseases


  • Onychia
  • Onychocryptosis
  • Onycholysis
  • Onychomadesis
  • Onychomycosis
  • Paronychia
  • Pyogenic Granuloma
  • Tinea Pedis
• Onychia is sloughing of the nail plate and inflammation of the matrix
• Onychocryptosis is also known as ingrown nails
• Onycholysis is where the nail plate disconnects with the nail bed, caused by physical trauma or negative nail reactions to different chemicals
• Onychomadesis is where the nail plate separates and falls off from the nail bed
• Onychomycosis is where the nail plate is infected with fungi
• Paronychia is the occurrence of pus that causes swelling and redness to the tissues around the nail plate because of bacterial inflammation
• Pyogenic Granuloma is when a mass of red tissues grows over the nail plate from the nail bed, a severe inflammation of the nail
• Tinea Pedis is also known as athlete's foot, a condition where red patches of skin appear on the bottom of the feet or between the toes, which cause itchiness
• bunions


  inflammation of the bursa at the joint of the big toe
• corns and calluses


  thickened hardened layers of skin
• spur


  sharp projection of the bone
• fissure


  cleft like defect skin
• flatfeet


  absence of arch foot
• high arches


  abnormally high arch of the foot
• plantar warts


  appear on the sole spread by touch
• athletes foot


  fungal infection forms between the toes itchiness
• gout


  form of arthritis caused by build upof too much uric acid in the blood
• eczema


  patches of dry reddened swollen itchy skin
• plantar digital neuritis


  inflammation of the nerves affecting the toes usually occuring to women