onychia
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of onychia
1855–60; < New Latin, equivalent to Greek onych-, stem of onyx nail ( see onyx) + New Latin -ia -ia
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Other forms of onychia occur during secondary syphilis simultaneously with the skin eruptions, and may prove obstinate and lead to shedding of the nails.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
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.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
Tuberculous onychia is met with in children and adolescents.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
The commonest form of onychia has already been referred to with whitlow.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
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.
From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by John Ashton
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