great toenail

plural great toenails · alternative great toe nail · alternative great-toe nail · alternative great toe-nail

1. datedSynonym of big toenail.

   Sam, 35, had a dark discoloration on his right great toenail that didn’t go away after six months.

   2022 May 19, Susan Hammerling-Hodgers, “Get your skin checked regularly, it might just save your life”, in Florida Today, volume 57, number 56, Melbourne, Fla., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2C, column 1

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   For a year, I had a progressive worsening brown discoloration of the medial and distal third of the right great toenail.

   2013 April 7, Terry Graedon, Joe Graedon, quoting an internal-medicine physician, “Little research on how jock itch is spread”, in The Palm Beach Post, volume 78, number 17, West Palm Beach, Fla., →ISSN, →OCLC, page F10, column 5

   It’s actually the tissue of the toe surrounding the nail—not the nail itself—that is infected. The problem is trauma to the nail, usually the great toenail.

   2017 October 15, Brian Moloney, “Called to Care: What are infected, ingrown toenails?”, in South Bend Tribune, 145th year, number 220, South Bend, Ind.: South Bend Tribune Corp., →OCLC, page A9, column 1

   Synonyms: big toenail