MICHIGAN MANICURIST EXAMS SCRIPT LATEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Hangnail - ✔✔Damaged skin around the nail plate (often on the eponychium)
becomes split or torn. Hangnails can be carefully trimmed, provided the living skin is not
cut or torn in the process.
✔✔Infected finger - ✔✔Visible redness, pain, swelling, broken skin, or pus. Refuse nail
service. Medical referral required.
✔✔leukonychia - ✔✔Also known as white spots, whitish discoloration of the nails
caused by injury to the matrix. do not indicate disease and will disappear as the nail
grows.
✔✔Melanonychia - ✔✔Darkening of the fingernails or toenails. In caucasians could be
an indicator of disease.
✔✔Nail psoriasis - ✔✔Nail surface pitting, roughness, onycholysis, and bed
discolorations either randomly or evenly spaced.
✔✔Nail pterygium - ✔✔Abnormal stretching of the eponychium or hyponychium around
the nail plate; usually from serious injury or an allergic skin reaction. never attempt to
treat or push back nail pterygium with any instrument.
, ✔✔onychophagy - ✔✔Bitten nails
✔✔Onychorrhexis - ✔✔Split or brittle nails that have a series of lengthwise ridges giving
a rough appearance to the surface of the nail plate.
✔✔Pincer nail - ✔✔Also known as trumpet nail; A form of dramatically increased nail
curvature of the free edge. The nail can curl in upon itself or may be deformed only on
one sidewall. Extreme or unusual cases or painful conditions must be referred to a
doctor.
✔✔plicatured nail - ✔✔Also known as folded nail; a type of highly curved nail usua ly
caused by injury to the matrix, but may be inherited.
✔✔ridged nail - ✔✔Lengthwise grooves in the plate, often mistaken for ridges; seen in
normal aging.
✔✔splinter hemorrhage - ✔✔Damage to the capillaries under the nail; gives the
appearance of a lengthwise small splinter underneath the nail plate. Caused by physical
trauma or injury to the nail bed.
✔✔onycholysis - ✔✔separation of the nail plate from the nail bed
✔✔onychocryptosis - ✔✔ingrown nail, requires medical referral.
✔✔onychomadesis - ✔✔Separation and falling off of a nail plate from the nail bed in
either fingernails or toenails. Medical referral required.
✔✔onychomycosis - ✔✔Fungal infection of the nail plate. Consists of whitish patches
that can be scraped off the surface of the nail or as long whitish or pale yellowish
streaks within the nail plate. A third common form causes the free edge of the nail to
crumble and may even affect the entire plate. Often invades the free edge and spreads
toward the matrix. Medical referral required
✔✔onychosis - ✔✔inflammation of the matrix and shedding of the nail caused by
inflection or injury. Possible medical referral required.
✔✔paronychia - ✔✔Bacterial inflammation of the tissues around the nail plate, causing
pus, swelling, and redness. Medical referral required.
✔✔pseudomonas aeruginosa - ✔✔Rapidly growing and contagious bacteria that can
cause an infection. Seen in the early stages as a yellow-green spot that becomes
darker in its advanced stage, changing from yellow to green to brown to black. Medical
referral required.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Hangnail - ✔✔Damaged skin around the nail plate (often on the eponychium)
becomes split or torn. Hangnails can be carefully trimmed, provided the living skin is not
cut or torn in the process.
✔✔Infected finger - ✔✔Visible redness, pain, swelling, broken skin, or pus. Refuse nail
service. Medical referral required.
✔✔leukonychia - ✔✔Also known as white spots, whitish discoloration of the nails
caused by injury to the matrix. do not indicate disease and will disappear as the nail
grows.
✔✔Melanonychia - ✔✔Darkening of the fingernails or toenails. In caucasians could be
an indicator of disease.
✔✔Nail psoriasis - ✔✔Nail surface pitting, roughness, onycholysis, and bed
discolorations either randomly or evenly spaced.
✔✔Nail pterygium - ✔✔Abnormal stretching of the eponychium or hyponychium around
the nail plate; usually from serious injury or an allergic skin reaction. never attempt to
treat or push back nail pterygium with any instrument.
, ✔✔onychophagy - ✔✔Bitten nails
✔✔Onychorrhexis - ✔✔Split or brittle nails that have a series of lengthwise ridges giving
a rough appearance to the surface of the nail plate.
✔✔Pincer nail - ✔✔Also known as trumpet nail; A form of dramatically increased nail
curvature of the free edge. The nail can curl in upon itself or may be deformed only on
one sidewall. Extreme or unusual cases or painful conditions must be referred to a
doctor.
✔✔plicatured nail - ✔✔Also known as folded nail; a type of highly curved nail usua ly
caused by injury to the matrix, but may be inherited.
✔✔ridged nail - ✔✔Lengthwise grooves in the plate, often mistaken for ridges; seen in
normal aging.
✔✔splinter hemorrhage - ✔✔Damage to the capillaries under the nail; gives the
appearance of a lengthwise small splinter underneath the nail plate. Caused by physical
trauma or injury to the nail bed.
✔✔onycholysis - ✔✔separation of the nail plate from the nail bed
✔✔onychocryptosis - ✔✔ingrown nail, requires medical referral.
✔✔onychomadesis - ✔✔Separation and falling off of a nail plate from the nail bed in
either fingernails or toenails. Medical referral required.
✔✔onychomycosis - ✔✔Fungal infection of the nail plate. Consists of whitish patches
that can be scraped off the surface of the nail or as long whitish or pale yellowish
streaks within the nail plate. A third common form causes the free edge of the nail to
crumble and may even affect the entire plate. Often invades the free edge and spreads
toward the matrix. Medical referral required
✔✔onychosis - ✔✔inflammation of the matrix and shedding of the nail caused by
inflection or injury. Possible medical referral required.
✔✔paronychia - ✔✔Bacterial inflammation of the tissues around the nail plate, causing
pus, swelling, and redness. Medical referral required.
✔✔pseudomonas aeruginosa - ✔✔Rapidly growing and contagious bacteria that can
cause an infection. Seen in the early stages as a yellow-green spot that becomes
darker in its advanced stage, changing from yellow to green to brown to black. Medical
referral required.
