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Definition of Fingernails
1. fingernail [n] - See also: fingernail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fingernails
Literary usage of Fingernails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1897)
"Ahlfeld then removed some of the dirt beneath the fingernails with a small splinter
of wood and dropped the latter into bouillon. ..."
2. School Work by Leon W. Goldrich, Olivia Mary Jones (1910)
"Much good information is given in the classroom about the aesthetic, economic,
moral, sanitary, and prophylactic value of clean fingernails, with mediocre ..."
3. Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA's Standards by National Research Council (2006)
"Plasma fluoride in these children was not correlated with fluoride in fingernails,
toenails, diet, or drinking water. In contrast, Correa Rodrigues et al. ..."
4. Preventing Lead Poisoning in Young Children (1991)
"Tests of hair and fingernails for lead levels. The levels of lead in hair or
fingernails do not correlate well with blood lead levels levels, ..."
5. Criminal Polit Buros and Other Plagues by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1994)
"During his confinement in Laos he was tortured so horribly that it was only by
God's grace that he survived. His fingernails were pulled out repeatedly ..."
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