Across
- 6. a piece of torn skin at the root of a fingernail
- 7. split or bittle nails have a series of lengthwise ridges around surface
- 9. soft nails that look scooped out
- 10. darkening of the fingernail or toenails
- 13. indentions that run across the nail
- 14. discoloration of the nail
- 15. excessive transverse nail curvature progressively pinching the nail bed distally
- 16. blood clot forms under the nail plate forming dark purplish spots
Down
- 1. white spots, a whitish discoloration of the nails
- 2. also known as cyanosis
- 3. thin white nail plate that are much more flexible then normal nails
- 4. tiny blood clots that tend to run vertically under nail
- 5. folded nail a highly curved nail plate caused by injury to matrix
- 7. an overgrowth or thickening of the nail
- 8. running vertically down the length to the naturalnailplate caused by uneven growth
- 11. abnormal condition that occur when skin is stretched by nail plate
- 12. the living skin splits around the nail cuticle