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It is often styled the scarfskin, and also the epidermis (_epi_, upon; and derma_, skin).]— Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
54).--The nails are mere modifications of the scarfskin, their horny appearance and feeling being due to the fact that the scales or plates of which they are composed are much harder and more closely packed.— Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
The root of the nail lies embedded, to the extent of about the twelfth part of an inch, in a fold of the sensitive skin, and, as may be observed from an inspection of the part, the scarfskin is not exactly continuous with the nail, but projects a little above it, forming a narrow margin The nail, like the scarfskin, rests upon, and is intimately connected with, a structure almost identical with the sensitive skin; this is, however, thrown into ridges, which run parallel to one another, except at the back part, where they radiate from the center of the root.— Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
The scissors should never be used except to pare the free edges when they have become ragged or too long, and the folds of scarfskin which overlap the roots should not, as a rule, be touched, unless they be frayed, when the torn edges may be snipped off, so as to prevent their being torn further, which may cause much pain, and even inflammation.— Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
"A surprising quantity of scarfskin, which no washing could remove, peels off, especially if a glove of camel's-hair or goat's-hair be used, as they are in the East, where also the soles of the feet are scraped with pumice.— Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
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