Definition of Onyxis

1. Noun. Toenail having its free tip or edges embedded in the surrounding flesh.

Exact synonyms: Ingrown Toenail
Generic synonyms: Toenail

Medical Definition of Onyxis

1. A toenail, one edge of which is overgrown by the nailfold, producing a pyogenic granuloma; due to faulty trimming of the toenails or pressure from a tight shoe. Synonym: ingrowing toenail, onychocryptosis, onyxis, unguis aduncus, unguis incarnatus. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Onyxis

onychophyma
onychoplasty
onychoptosis
onychorrhexis
onychoschizia
onychosis
onychostroma
onychotillomania
onychotomy
onychotrophy
onymous
onyon
onyx
onyx marble
onyxes
onyxis (current term)
onyxitis
oo
oo-
oo-er
oobit
oobits
oobleck
oocyesis
oocyst
oocysts
oocyte
oocyte donation
oocyte expression
oocytes

Literary usage of Onyxis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practice of surgery by James Miller (1857)
"... the too riding over its fellows, and pointing to the outer side of the foot. This, too, can be but palliated. onyxis and ..."

2. Clinical Lectures on Surgery by Auguste Nélaton (1855)
"The oval method, the one now generally preferred, was practised ; of course, the section of the bone was made oblique. This patient recovered. onyxis. ..."

3. Essentials of the principles and practice of medicine: A Handbook for by Henry Hartshorne (1874)
"onyxis. This is commonly, but improperly, called in-growing nail. The great toe is its much most frequent seat. It is an inflammation of the soft parts near ..."

4. A Treatise on venereal diseases by Auguste-Théodore Vidal (1865)
"onyxis. Under the influence of the syphilitic virus, the matrix of the nail sometimes suffers changes, which depend upon an inflammation more or less acute. ..."

5. Provincial Medical & Surgical Journal (1843)
"onyxis. to ascertain that their students attend regularly .... onyxis. The diseased lateral growth of the nail of the great toe, when it presses into the ..."

6. A Hand-book of Homoeopathic Practice by George M. Oakford (1882)
"onyxis—"IN-GROWING NAIL" The great toe is the one usually affected. The nail does not grow into the flesh, but inflammation of the soft tissues around the ..."

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