NH COSMETOLOGY WRITTEN EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
Hyponychium - Answers - The skin beneath / under the Free Edge of the nail
Leuconychia - Answers - a condition that usually presents as White spots / streaks
under the nails
Onyx - Answers - The Latin / medical term for nails
Base coat - Answers - adhesive coat for nail polish
Agnail - Answers - The technical term for a hang nail
Lunula - Answers - A half-moon at the base of the nail/Crescent shaped whitish area of
the nail bed (not always visible)
Humerus - Answers - The largest bone in the arm
Radius - Answers - bone found in the forearm and on the same side as the thumb
Ulna - Answers - bone found in the forearm and on the same side as the little finger
Plantar warts - Answers - warts, caused by the HPV Virus, are flat, hard, thick growths,
usually occurring on the soles of the feet and sometimes look like a circle within a circle.
Tinea Pedis - Answers - athletes foot/ rigworm of the feet
Onychia - Answers - bacterial infection with pus at the nail matrix
Onychophagy - Answers - the technical term for Bitten nails
Nail wall - Answers - semicircular fold of skin overlapping the nail plate on either side
Pterygium - Answers - Condition describes a forward growth of the cuticle covering
most of the nail plate/body
Onychatrophia - Answers - Atrophy or wasting away of the nail plate, may be the result
of injury or disease
Grooves - Answers - These are the tracks on both sides of the nail, through which it
moves as it grows
Eponychium - Answers - the cuticle overlapping the lunula at the base of the nail
WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
Hyponychium - Answers - The skin beneath / under the Free Edge of the nail
Leuconychia - Answers - a condition that usually presents as White spots / streaks
under the nails
Onyx - Answers - The Latin / medical term for nails
Base coat - Answers - adhesive coat for nail polish
Agnail - Answers - The technical term for a hang nail
Lunula - Answers - A half-moon at the base of the nail/Crescent shaped whitish area of
the nail bed (not always visible)
Humerus - Answers - The largest bone in the arm
Radius - Answers - bone found in the forearm and on the same side as the thumb
Ulna - Answers - bone found in the forearm and on the same side as the little finger
Plantar warts - Answers - warts, caused by the HPV Virus, are flat, hard, thick growths,
usually occurring on the soles of the feet and sometimes look like a circle within a circle.
Tinea Pedis - Answers - athletes foot/ rigworm of the feet
Onychia - Answers - bacterial infection with pus at the nail matrix
Onychophagy - Answers - the technical term for Bitten nails
Nail wall - Answers - semicircular fold of skin overlapping the nail plate on either side
Pterygium - Answers - Condition describes a forward growth of the cuticle covering
most of the nail plate/body
Onychatrophia - Answers - Atrophy or wasting away of the nail plate, may be the result
of injury or disease
Grooves - Answers - These are the tracks on both sides of the nail, through which it
moves as it grows
Eponychium - Answers - the cuticle overlapping the lunula at the base of the nail
