Nail Disorders

Question 1

The technical term used to describe a highly curved nail is:
a. eggshell nails
b. plicatured nails
c. nail pterygium
d. splinter hemorrhage

Answer 1

b. plicatured nails
Plicatured nail means “folded nail,” and is a type of highly curved nail plate caused by injury to the matri

Question 2

The separation and falling off of the nail plate from the nail bed is
a. onychia
b. paronychia
c. onychomadesis
d. pyogenic granuloma

Answer 2

c. onychomadesis

Question 3

Splinter hemorrhages are caused by physical trauma or injury to the
a. nail plate
b. nail bed
c. free edge
d. lunula

Answer 3

b. nail bed

Question 4

a fungal infection of the natural nail plate is known as
a. onychomycosis
b. onychia
c. onychogryposis
d. paronychia

Answer 4

a. onychomycosis