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paronychia
n.
inflammation of the skin surrounding a fingernail or toenail
Paronychia
A
paronychia (; from
para, "around" and
onukh-, "nail") is a
nail disease that is an often-tender bacterial or fungal infection of the hand or foot where the
nail and skin meet at the side or the base of a
finger or
toenail. The infection can start suddenly (acute paronychia) or gradually (chronic paronychia). Paronychia is commonly misapplied as a synonym for
whitlow or felon.
Paronychia
Noun
1. low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts
(synonym) genus Paronychia
(hypernym) caryophylloid dicot genus
(member-holonym) Caryophyllaceae, family Caryophyllaceae, carnation family, pink family
(member-meronym) whitlowwort
paronychia
Noun
1. infection in the tissues adjacent to a nail on a finger or toe
(hypernym) infection
Paronychia
(n.)
A whitlow, or felon.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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