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onychia

/əʊˈnɪki.ə/

onychia noun: an infection of the nailbed, which more or less always also involves the nail itself (sometimes causing the nail to slough off). Also the plural of onychium.

Noun

onychia (countable and uncountable, plural onychias)

  1. An infection of the nailbed, which more or less always also involves the nail itself (sometimes causing the nail to slough off).
    • Near-synonym: whitlow
    Synonyms:
    onychitis, whitlow

Also used as

onychia is also the plural of onychium.

Synonyms of onychia

Forms of onychia

pluralonychias

Origin of onychia

From New Latin, from onych- + -ia; compare onyx.

From New Latin; by surface analysis, onychi(um) + -a.

Words formed from onychia

Questions about onychia

What does onychia mean?
Onychia means an infection of the nailbed, which more or less always also involves the nail itself (sometimes causing the nail to slough off).
What part of speech is onychia?
Onychia is a noun.
How do you pronounce onychia?
Onychia is pronounced /əʊˈnɪki.ə/.
What is the plural of onychia?
The plural of onychia is onychias.

Words near onychia in the dictionary

  1. onychalgia
  2. onychauxes
  3. onychauxis
  4. onychectomies
  5. onychectomy
  6. onychia
  7. onychial
  8. onychias
  9. onychinus
  10. onychitides
  11. onychitis

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