onychodystrophy

plural onychodystrophies · alternative onychodystrophia

1. uncountableusuallymedicineDystrophic changes in nails, such as deformations, malformations or discolourations.

   Whether onychodystrophy is more common among patients with diabetes is not known.

   2010, Nicholas Katsilambros, Eleftherios Dounis, Konstantinos Makrilakis, Nikolaos Tentolouris, Panagiotis Tsapogas, Atlas of the Diabetic Foot, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 57

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   Symmetric lupoid onychodystrophy is a form of lupus that involves the cells from which the nails grow.

   2006, Karen L. Campbell, The Pet Lover's Guide to Cat and Dog Skin Diseases, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 270

   Median canaliform onychodystrophy typically presents with the Heller's fir tree deformity and is often associated with severe arterial disease, severe malnutrition, and trauma.

   2010, John C. Hall, Brian John Hall, Hall's Manual of Skin as a Marker of Underlying Disease, PMPH-USA, →ISBN, page 224

   There is no tissue crepitus but some scaliness of the surrounding plantar skin. There is onychodystrophy suggestive of onychomycosis affecting four of his nine toenails.

   2011, Rachael Morris-Jones, Ann-Marie Powell, Emma Benton, 100 Cases in Dermatology, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 113

   Again, it is important to include in this category only those dogs that developed onychodystrophy as the initial clinical manifestation of their disease, not as a result of onychomadesis, onycholysis, and so forth.

   2013, William H. Miller, Craig E. Griffin, Karen L. Campbell, Muller and Kirk's Small Animal Dermatology - E-BOOK, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 737