paronychia

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c) The inflamation of cuticle or nail fold is called paronychia.

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  1. noun Inflammation of the tissue surrounding a fingernail or toenail.

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  • The worst was a bad case of chronic paronychia-it's a disorder of the nail beds, usually fungal. —  Diane Duane - Star Trek : The Next Generation - Dark Mirror
  • He shows signs of the paronychia- just as the first Mark Stewart does; his nails have some additional ridges on them because of trauma to the nail beds. —  Diane Duane - Star Trek : The Next Generation - Dark Mirror
  • How about paronychia from chewing your fingernails? —  WhiteCoat Rants
  • Lithium is often effective for paronychia, chalazions, bacterial skin infections, urinary tract infections, canker sores, cold sores and genital herpes, antidepressants for canker sores, cold sores, genital herpes, T. B, and probably malaria and HIV. —  THE MEDICAL NEWS
  • In paronychia, inflammation around the nail, pieces of lint or cotton should be inserted between the edge of the nail and the inflamed parts, and wet solution of antiseptics, like listerine or salt water, applied with cloths 78 MOTHERS' REMEDIES INFLAMMATION OF THE NAIL. —  Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada
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  1. Latin parōnychia, from Greek parōnukhiā : para-, around; see para-1 + onux, onukh-, nail; see nogh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French paronychie, whitlow, = Spanish paroniquia, whitlow-grass, = Portuguese panaricio = Italian paronichia, from Latin paronychia, Middle Latin also, after Italian, etc., panaricio, from Greek παρωνυχία, a whitlow, from παρά, beside, + ο̄νυξ (ὀνυχ-), nail: see onyx. Cf. onychia.
 

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