Definitions

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  • noun medicine, anatomy The area underneath a nail in a human or other mammal

Etymologies

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nail +‎ bed

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Examples

  • Do you think us fantasma? the voice of our singing nailbed! lo,  fat intenstine!

    Untitled (Continued) 2010

  • The American: A color that matches the flesh of your nailbed and skin followed by a topcoat.

    Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005

  • The American: A color that matches the flesh of your nailbed and skin followed by a topcoat.

    Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005

  • The American: A color that matches the flesh of your nailbed and skin followed by a topcoat.

    Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005

  • Academy of Dermatology, people who bite their nails or pick at hangnails appear to be especially vulnerable to subungual warts because they are breaking the surface of their skin, which allows the virus to penetrate into the nailbed.

    eHow - Health How To's 2010

  • The angle of the normal nail bed is 160°, with clubbing, the angle of the nailbed increases to > 180° and the base of the nail becomes spongy.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • It can be identified by assessing the angle of the nailbed.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Toenail fungus feeds on this keratin and thrives in the nailbed.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

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