(n.) the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.
(n.) The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
(n.) The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
(n.) A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them.
(a.) A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard.
(n.) To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.
(n.) To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.
(n.) To fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold, as to a bargain or to acquiescence in an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap.
(n.) To spike, as a cannon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
(2) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
(3) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
(4) In the end, the emails from citizen scientists nailed the timing: “looks like it started maybe December 2015”; the severity: “I’ve seen dieback before, but not like this”; and the cause: “guessing it may be the consequence of the four-year drought”.
(5) Impairments of hearing, of mobility, of cutting toe-nails and of general physical activity were the conditions which were most frequently named.
(6) All nine injuries had antibiotic prophylaxis before and after nail removal.
(7) But I'm starting with the job that I can do something about right now – scrabbling around on the floor, picking up three-inch nails and cigarette butts so that the new four-year-olds will have somewhere safe to play at break.
(8) A case is reported of a male infant with congenital palmoplantar keratoderma and nail dystrophy who developed progressive perioral and perineal keratoderma.
(9) Although the nail changes and systemic complications are probably due to different causes in drug-induced YNS, a careful search for systemic complications are necessary in patients who develop nail changes.
(10) Similar cultures from ten additional patients who underwent nail surgery were also performed.
(11) It constitutes an alternative to Ender nailing, screw-plate, and nail-plate.
(12) Fragments of nail keratin removed with tweezers from patients suffering from alopecia areata were examined using light microscopy and electron microscopy.
(13) It's an anxious time for those 180,000 teenagers chasing the last university places in clearing ; nails are bitten to the quick, eyes glazed from internet searching.
(14) The phenol and alcohol procedure still remains as one of the most effective and gratifying means of treatment for symptomatic ingrown nails.
(15) High level of Ge content was detected from the hair and nail by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry.
(16) Yellow nail syndrome is characterized by a yellow discolouration of the nails associated with idiopathic lymphoedema and pleuropulmonary manifestations.
(17) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
(18) Median strain values of reamed only and polyacetal-nailed femora ranged from 67 to 90 percent of the intact side.
(19) Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority and minority leaders, held two lengthy meetings on Monday in an attempt to nail down terms of a possible compromise.
(20) One hundred patients were treated with the Rydell four-flanged nail and 100 with the Gouffon pins.
Ungual
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a nail, claw, talon, or hoof, or resembling one.
(a.) Having a nail, claw, or hoof attached; -- said of certain bones of the feet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The technique and significance of nail biopsies with regard to mycotic and bacterial infections, onychopathy associated with cutaneous and systemic diseases, and benign and malignant ungual neoplasms is discussed.
(2) Injections, radiographs, microdissection, corrosion and transillumination allowed establishment of groups to describe variations in palmar, dorsal, pulpal and ungual artery distribution.
(3) Several methods are available for studying distal vascularization: peri-ungual capillaroscopy, digital plethysmography and laser-Doppler.
(4) The anatomy of the ungual tuberosity is highly variable.
(5) The present study compared the effectiveness and tolerability of two topical ungual preparations: a 28% solution of tioconazole and a 2% tincture of miconazole.
(6) Adhesives and surgical techniques are of limited value in the fixation of ungual prostheses.
(7) A 48-year-old Caucasian male with a 3 mm sub-ungual right middle finger melanoma underwent cisplatin forequarter perfusion, ray amputation, and ipsilateral axillary node dissection.
(8) The surgical approach was usually para ungual, in a sub-periosteal plane.
(9) The nail is part of the ungual unit; it is affected indirectly and late in vascular disease.
(10) Ungual lichen planus may occur without any mucocutaneous signs, as has been documented by histologic studies.
(11) For this reason, any subject at risk of diabetes should undergo at least one annual capillaroscopic examination of the ocular conjunctiva or if not, of the peri-ungual region.
(12) The glucagonoma syndrome is characterized by necrolytic migratory erythema, glossitis, ungual dystrophy, diabetes mellitus, anemia, weight loss, elevated plasma glucagon levels and an alpha-cell glucagon-secreting neoplasm of the pancreas.
(13) Observation over time showed that preclinical signs in the form of x-ray morphological changes in the hand joints were the following: a niche in the fifth finger middle phalanx metaphysis or (less frequently) in the thumb ungual phalanx and foci of epiphyseal outer resorption.
(14) The authors report the case of a child who, at the age of 18 months showed signs of hypoparathyroidism together with gastrointestinal, then buccal, then ungual candidiasis.
(15) At the age of four the patient was referred for congenital malformations of the hands, and notably bilateral and symmetrical abnormalities of the 5th finger consisting of inflammatory-like tapering, soft tissue hypotrophy, sucked appearance of the ungual phalanx, absence of palmar flexion folds and skin ridges and above all, presence of an ectopic supernumerary nail on the volar aspect of the ungual phalanx.
(16) This study was designed to determine criteria of normality of peri-ungual capillaroscopy of the toes.
(17) Candida albicans was detected in the ungual lesions of some patients.
(18) The ungual phalanges of the affected fingers were lacking in the crescent-shaped cap and had a blunt Y-shaped bony projection.
(19) The modes of spread of fungal infection on the nails are discussed stressing the essential importance of the knowledge of this mode for finding of effective treatment of ungual trichophytosis.
(20) The ungual tuft of the digits corresponds to an enthesis at which usually numerous reactions take place especially in adults.