Medical Definition of Perionychium
1. Synonym: eponychium. Origin: peri-+ G. Onyx, nail (05 Mar 2000)
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Literary usage of Perionychium
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1. A Treatise on diseases of the skin for advanced students and practitioners by Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1916)
"body of the nail posteriorly for a sh or nail-skin, whereas the epidermis boi
perionychium, and that underlying ti rests, ..."
2. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin for the use of students and by Oliver Samuel Ormsby (1921)
"The Jty{x>ny- chium is that portion of the epidermis upon which the nail-body
rests, and the perionychium is that portion of the epidermis surrounding the ..."
3. Cutaneous Medicine: A Systematic Treatise on the Diseases of the Skin by Louis Adolphus Duhring (1895)
"... and the epidermis bordering the entire nail the perionychium. Upon the outer
surface of the nail, which is smooth and glistening, there exist more or ..."
4. Practitioner's medical dictionary by George Milbry Gould (1910)
"perionychium (per-e-on-ik'-e-um) [peri-; 5wc, nail]. The border of epiderm at
the root of the nail. ..."
5. Lehrbuch der Histologie des Menschen: Einschliesslich der mikroskopischen by Alexander A. Böhm, M. von Davidoff (1903)
"... und zwar als eine mächtige Verdickung des Str. lucidum; er ist also in diesem
Stadium von den übrigen Schichten des Str. corneum, dem perionychium, ..."
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