Onychodystrophy

Quick meaning: Onychodystrophy is a noun meaning (medicine) Dystrophic changes in nails, such as deformations, malformations or discolourations.

Meaning

(medicine) Dystrophic changes in nails, such as deformations, malformations or discolourations.

Example Sentences

Whether onychodystrophy is more common among patients with diabetes is not known.

Symmetric lupoid onychodystrophy is a form of lupus that involves the cells from which the nails grow.

There is no tissue crepitus but some scaliness of the surrounding plantar skin. There is onychodystrophy suggestive of onychomycosis affecting four of his nine toenails.

Median canaliform onychodystrophy typically presents with the Heller's fir tree deformity and is often associated with severe arterial disease, severe malnutrition, and trauma.

Word Forms

• onychodystrophies
• onychodystrophia

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include onychodysplasia, onychosis, onychopathology, onychopathy, onycholysis, onychocryptosis.

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