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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of onychia1

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

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

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.

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.

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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