Question: The surface of a healthy natural nail shoukd be ________.

Answer: smooth and unspotted

Question: Visible depressions running across the width of the natural nail plate that are the result of a major illness or injury are known as ________.

Answer: Beau’s line

Question: What is a. Atrial condition in which blood clots form under the nail plate due to a small injury of the nail plate?

Answer: Bruised nails

Question: Which type of nail has a noticeably thin, white nail plate, and is more flexible than a normal nail?

Answer: Eggshell

Question: When the eponychium or other living tissue surrounding the nail plate becomes split or torn, a _______ occurs.

Answer: hangnail

Question: Which treatment should be suggested to an individual with a simple hangnail?

Answer: Hot oil manicure

Question: Redness, pain, and swelling are best described as signs of a(n) _______.

Answer: infection

Question: Minor damage to the matrix that produces a whitish discoloration or white spite in the nails is known as ______.

Answer: leukonychia

Question: Leukonychia spots result from ________.

Answer: injury to the nail matrix

Question: A dark band within the nail plate extending from the base of the free edge due to increased pigmentation is known as _______.

Answer: melanonychia