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Definition of Onycholysis
1. Noun. Separation of a nail from its normal attachment to the nail bed.
Definition of Onycholysis
1. Noun. (medicine) The loosening or separation of a fingernail or toenail from its bed ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Onycholysis
1. The loosening of the nails starting at the border. (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Onycholysis
Literary usage of Onycholysis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Cutaneous Diseases Including Syphilis by American Dermatological Association (1913)
"Heller separates the condi- dition onycholysis from ... Heller describes a case
of onycholysis partialis in a young woman twenty-seven years of age, ..."
2. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin for the use of students and by Oliver Samuel Ormsby (1921)
"... and gradually progresses until it has involved the entire nail as far as the
lunule. Heller* describes a case of onycholysis partialis, associated with ..."
3. Surgery, Its Principles and Practice by William Williams Keen (1906)
"onycholysis (loosening of the nails) is common in old people and may be syphilitic
or para- syphilitic. The same is true of clavi forming in the palms of ..."
4. Diseases of the Skin: Their Pathology and Treatment by Milton Bixler Hartzell (1917)
"At times the nail-plate becomes partly detached from the nail- bed without obvious
cause (onycholysis, ..."
5. Proposed National Strategies For The Prevention Of Leading Work-related (1988)
"... onycholysis Dermatological diseases accounted for a disproportionately large
percentage (approximately 34%) of all cases of chronic occupational disease ..."
6. Neurological Bulletin by Frederick Tilney, Columbia University, Dept. of Neurology (1919)
"... greater resistance to high degrees of temperature; abnormal growth of nails,
or the opposite condition (onycholysis) ; peculiar furrowing of the nails, ..."
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