Across
- 5. bitten nails; chewing the nail or chewing the hardened skin surrounding the nail plate.
- 7. Also known as folded nail; a type of highly curved nail plate
- 8. irregular stretching of eponychium or hyponychium around nail plate. serious injury/allergic skin reaction
- 12. Dark purplish spot. Usually due to small injuries to the nail bed
- 13. living tissue surrounding the nail plate splits or tears.
- 14. Whitish discolored spots of the nails, usually caused by injury to the matrix area (not related to the body's health or vitamin deficiencies)
- 15. Visible depressions across the width of the natural nail plate caused by a major illness/injury
Down
- 1. Also known as trumpet nail; dramatically increased nail curvature of free edge.
- 2. damage to capillaries under nail; appearance of lengthwise splinter under nail plate.
- 3. nail bed color, caused by lack of circulation/systemic disorder
- 4. Condition caused by an injury or disease of the nail unit.
- 6. Split or brittle nails appearing as nail plate roughness
- 9. Noticeably thin, white nail plates that are more flexible than normal and can curve over the free edge.
- 10. lengthwise grooves in plate(mistaken for ridges)
- 11. Significant nail darkening caused by increased pigment cells(melanocytes) - visible black band or dark color over entire nail