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| Blue Nails ( discolored nails ) |
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| nails turn variety of colors; may indicate systemic disorder |
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| dark purplish spots; usually due to injury |
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| wavy ridged by uneven nail growth; usually result of illness or injury |
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| noticeably thin white nail plate that is more flexable than normal; may be caused by diet, illness, or medication |
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| depressions in the nail that run either lenghtwise or across the nail;result from illness or injury, stress, or pregnancy |
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| the cuticle splits around the nail |
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| redness, pain, swelling, or pus; refer to physician |
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| Leukonchia ( white spot ) |
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| whitish discoloration of the nails; usually caused by injury to the base of the nail |
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| darkening of the fingernails or toenails |
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| atrophy or wasting away of the nail; caused by injury or disease |
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| Onychauxis ( hypertrophy ) |
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| overgrowth in thickness of the nail; caused by local infection, internal imbalance, or may be hereditary |
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| abnormal brittleness with striation ( lines ) of the nail plate |
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| forward growth of the cuticle |
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| increased crosswise curvature throughtoput the nail plate |
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| Trumpet Nails ( pincer Nails ) |
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| edges of the nail plate curl around to form the shape of a trumpet or cone around the free edge |
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| inflammation of the matrix with pus and shedding of the nail |
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| thickening and increased of the nail |
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| loosening of the nail without shedding |
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| separation and falling off of a nail from the nail bed |
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| growth of horny ephthelium in the nail bed |
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| periodic shedding of one or more nail |
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| bacterial inflammation of the tissues around the nail; pus, thickening, and brownish discoloration of the nail plate |
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| severe inflammation of the nail in which a lump of red tissue grows up from the nail bed to the nail plate |
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| reddened patches of small blisters; slight or severe itching |
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| Tinea Pedis ( ringworm of the foot or athlete's foot ) |
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| deep, itchy, cololess blisters |
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| Tinea Unguium ( onychomycosis or ringworm of the nail ) |
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| whitish patches on the nail that can be scraped off or long yellowish streaks within the nail substance |
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