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
NailDiseases
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