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Nail Disorders and Diseases Quiz


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Nail surface pitting roughness Onycholysis and bed discoloration

A. Nail

B. Nail psoriasis

C. Bruised nail bed

D. Eggshell nail


A rare and serious type of skin cancer that begins in the nail matrix

A. Ridged nail

B. Pyogenic granuloma

C. Nail melanoma

D. Onychia


Significant nail darkening caused by increased pigment cells

A. Melanonychia

B. Eggshell nail

C. Bruised nail bed


Rapidly growing and contagious bacteria that can cause infection; seen in the early stages as a yellow/green spot that becomes darker in advanced stage

A. Pseudomonas aeruginosa

B. Nail melanoma

C. Pyogenic granuloma

D. Times pedis


Matrix inflammation and nail shedding caused by infection or injury

A. Onychia

B. Onycholysis

C. Onychomadesis

D. Nail pytergium


Thin white nail plate is more flexible than usual; usually caused by diet, hereditary internal disease

A. Paronychia

B. Eggshell nail

C. Onychomadesis

D. Onycholysis


Fungul infection of the feet also known as athletes foot

A. Bruised nail bed

B. Pincer nail

C. Tinea pedis

D. Eggshell nail


Nail plate fungul infection consisting of whitish patches that can be scraped off the nail surface

A. Onychomycosis

B. Onychorrhexis

C. Nail psoriasis

D. Onychomadesis


Irregular stretching of the eponychium or hyponychium

A. Nail pterygium

B. Nail bed

C. Nail plate

D. Onychia


Known as trumpet nail a form of dramatically increased nail curative of the free edge

A. Pincer nail

B. Pilcatured nail

C. Piner nail

D. Paronychia


Separation and falling off a nail plate from the nail bed caused by infection, matrix, injury systemic illness

A. Onychomadesis

B. Pyogenic granuloma

C. Onychia

D. Onychorrhexis


Bacterial inflammation of the tissues around the nail plate causing pus swelling redness

A. Melanonychia

B. Nail bed

C. Paronychia

D. Stuffed nail


Darkish purple spots Usually due to a small nail bed injury can usually be covered with nail polish or camouflage

A. Bruised nail bed

B. Onychia

C. Onycholysis

D. Paronychia


Separation of the nail plate and bed often due to injury or allergic reactions

A. Onychia

B. Onychomadesis

C. Onycholysis

D. Onychrrhexis




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