onychia

[oh-nik-ee-uh]

noun

Pathology.

1. inflammation of the matrix of the nail.

onychia

/ ˌɒnɪˈkɪə /

noun

1. vet science inflammation of the nails or claws of animals

Word History and Origins

Origin of onychia¹

1855–60; < New Latin, equivalent to Greek onych-, stem of onyx nail ( onyx ) + New Latin -ia -ia

Example Sentences

Mr. Liston afterwards performed one of the minor—but most painful operations of surgery—the partial removal of the nail, in onychia, on a man similarly narcotised, and with precisely the same result. 

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Paronychium-ia: one or more bristle-like appendages of onychia; q.v.

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The nail-folds occasionally present a pustular eruption and superficial ulceration, to which the name syphilitic onychia has been applied; more commonly the nails become brittle and ragged, and they may even be shed.

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A deeper and more troublesome onychia results from infection at the nail-fold; the infection spreads slowly beneath the fold until it reaches the matrix, and a drop or two of pus forms beneath the nail, usually in the region of the lunule.

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Onychia is the term applied to an infection of the soft parts around the nail or of the matrix beneath it.

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