See Also: unguis incarnatus(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Unguis(medicine)
unguis(dictionary)
os unguis(medicine)
matrix unguis(medicine)
Haller's unguis(medicine)
leukopathia unguis(medicine)
corpus unguis(medicine)
vallum unguis(medicine)

unguis incarnatus (medicine)


unguis incarnatus -->
ingrown nail


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.