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Definition of Onychosis
1. Noun. Any disease or disorder of the nails.
Medical Definition of Onychosis
1. Any disease of the nails. Synonym: onychonosus, onychosis. Origin: onycho-+ G. Pathos, suffering (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Onychosis
Literary usage of Onychosis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elementary Manual of Regional Topographical Dermatology by Raimond Jacques Adrien Sabouraud, Charles Frederic Marshall (1906)
"... onychosis is always accompanied or preceded by favus of the scalp or body.
It commences by yellow opaque streaks in the lateral or free borders of the ..."
2. Gulf War And Health by Institute of Medicine (2005)
"The results showed that prevalences of hyperkeratosis, dryness, onychosis, and
dermatitis were increased among the exposed compared with the non-exposed. ..."
3. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin for the use of students and by Oliver Samuel Ormsby (1921)
"... such as trauma from unskilled manicuring, irritation from an hypertrophied
nail, and other factors mentioned as productive of onychosis. ..."
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