Pivot Point Nails chapter 14 Exam 2025 Questions and Answers

Pivot Point Nails chapter 14 Exam
2025 Questions and Answers


Six signs of infection - ANSWER✔✔-Pain,swelling,redness,local fever,throbbing and
pus

Etiology - ANSWER✔✔-Cause of disease,disorder or condition

Onychophagy - ANSWER✔✔-Bitten nails

Beau's lines - ANSWER✔✔-Indentations that run across the nail

Pterygium - ANSWER✔✔-Refers to the living skin that becomes attached to the nail
plate either at the eponychium(dorsal pterygium) or the hyponychium(inverse
pterygium)

Leuconychia - ANSWER✔✔-White spots appearing in the nails

Melanonychia - ANSWER✔✔-A brown or black darkening of the nail

Onychia - ANSWER✔✔-Inflammation of the nail matrix

Onychorrhexis - ANSWER✔✔-Split or brittle nail

Onychauxis - ANSWER✔✔-Hypertrophy is a thickening of the nail plate or an
abnormal outgrowth of the nail

Agnails - ANSWER✔✔-Split cuticles, loose skin partially separated from the cuticle
(hang nails)

Onychocryptosis - ANSWER✔✔-Ingrown nails

Furrows - ANSWER✔✔-Indented vertical lines down the nail plate



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