Test (Angel) Part 1/ 70 Q&A/ 2024-2025.
1) The study of the growth and structure of nails is known as:
A. Onyxology.
B. Onychia.
C. The cause of a disease.
D. Eponychium. - Answer: A. Onyxology.
2) Etiology is the study of:
A. Eponychium.
B. Onychia.
C. Bitten nails.
D. The cause of a disease. - Answer: D. The cause of a disease.
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3) Often referred to as the cuticle, it overlaps the lunula at the base of the nail:
A. Eponychium.
B. Bitten nails.
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, C. Onychia.
D. Inflammation at the base of the nail with pus usually present. - Answer: A. Eponychium.
4) Infection at the nail base, usually with pus, untreated can cause loss of the nail:
A. Bitten nails.
B. Inflammation at the base of the nail with pus usually present.
C. Onychophagy.
D. Onychia. - Answer: D. Onychia.
5) Onychia refers to a condition where:
A.Inflammation at the base of the nailwith pus usually present.
B.Excessively tight shoe.
C.Onychophagy.
D.Onychocryptosis/ingrown toe-nails. - Answer: A.Inflammation at the base of the nailwith pus
usually present.
6) Onychophagy refers to:
A.Onychophagy.
B.Inflammation at the base of the nailwith pus usually present.
C.Onychocryptosis/ingrown toe-nails.
D.Bitten nails. - Answer: Bitten nails.
7) The technical term for bitten nails is:
A.Onychocryptosis/ingrown toe-nails.
B.Excessively tight shoe.
C.Ridge filler.
D.Onychophagy. - Answer: Onychophagy.
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