Nail Disease & Disorder

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Across
  1. 2. finger with visible redness, pain, swelling, broken skin, or pus
  2. 5. vertical lines running the length of the natural nail plate
  3. 7. whitish discoloration found inside nail plate
  4. 9. bacterial inflammation of the tissues surrounding the nail
  5. 10. irregular stretching of the eponychium or hyponychium around the nail plate
  6. 11. ingrown nail
  7. 14. rare and serious type of skin cancer that begins in the nail matrix
  8. 15. damaged skin around the nail plate becomes split or torn
  9. 17. separation and falling off of a nail pate from the nail bed
  10. 18. irregular split or brittle nails appearing as nail plate surface roughness
  11. 19. any deformity or disease of the natural nails
Down
  1. 1. severe inflammation of the nail in which a lump of red tissue grows up from the nail bed to the nail plate
  2. 3. an unhealthy nail condition that is hereditary or caused by injury or disease of nail unit
  3. 4. medical term for fungal infection of the feet
  4. 6. depressions running across the nail plate's width due to a slowing production of matrix cells
  5. 8. noticeably thin, white nail plate that is more flexible than usual
  6. 11. separation of the nail plate and bed
  7. 12. inflammation of the nail matrix followed by shedding of the natural nail caused by infection or injury
  8. 13. nail surface pitting, roughness, onycholysis, and bed discolorations randomly or evenly spaced
  9. 16. AKA bitten nails