onychodystrophy
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[edit]onychodystrophy (usually uncountable, plural onychodystrophies)
- (medicine) Dystrophic changes in nails, such as deformations, malformations or discolourations.
- 2006, Karen L. Campbell, The Pet Lover's Guide to Cat and Dog Skin Diseases, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 270:
- Symmetric lupoid onychodystrophy is a form of lupus that involves the cells from which the nails grow.
- 2010, Nicholas Katsilambros, Eleftherios Dounis, Konstantinos Makrilakis, Nikolaos Tentolouris, Panagiotis Tsapogas, Atlas of the Diabetic Foot, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 57:
- Whether onychodystrophy is more common among patients with diabetes is not known.
- 2010, John C. Hall, Brian John Hall, Hall's Manual of Skin as a Marker of Underlying Disease, PMPH-USA, →ISBN, page 224:
- Median canaliform onychodystrophy typically presents with the Heller's fir tree deformity and is often associated with severe arterial disease, severe malnutrition, and trauma.
- 2011, Rachael Morris-Jones, Ann-Marie Powell, Emma Benton, 100 Cases in Dermatology, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 113:
- 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.
- 2013, William H. Miller, Craig E. Griffin, Karen L. Campbell, Muller and Kirk's Small Animal Dermatology - E-BOOK, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 737:
- Again, it is important to include in this category only those dogs that developed onychodystrophy as the initial clinical manifestation of their disease, not as a result of onychomadesis, onycholysis, and so forth.