Nail Disorders and Diseases

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Across
  1. 2. this is a noticeable trait of eggshell nails
  2. 4. simply known as bitten nail
  3. 6. a dark band within the nail plate that extends from the base to the free edge due to increased pigmentation
  4. 8. parasites that under some conditions can cause infections to the feet and hands
  5. 10. bacteria that can cause nail infections
  6. 16. highly curved nail caused by injury to the matrix or inherited
  7. 18. when this or other living tissue surrounding the nail plate becomes split of torn causing a hangnail
Down
  1. 1. redness, pain, and swelling are signs of this
  2. 3. fungal infection of the nail plate
  3. 5. split or brittle nails with lengthwise ridges on nail plate
  4. 7. severe inflammation of the nail in which a lump of red tissue grows up from the nail bed to the nail plate
  5. 9. onychia is the result of this happening to the nail matrix and nail shedding
  6. 11. caused by trauma to nail bed that damages capillaries and allows small amounts of blood to flow
  7. 12. tiny pits or roughness on surface of natural nail plate; noninfectious
  8. 13. tinea pedis is the medical tern used to describe this
  9. 14. ridges running vertically down the natural nail plate are caused by this
  10. 15. separation and falling off of a nail plate from the nail bed
  11. 17. caused be injury to the matrix; white discolorations of the nail