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onychodystrophy

onychodystrophy noun: dystrophic changes in nails, such as deformations, malformations or discolourations.

Noun

onychodystrophy (usually uncountable, plural onychodystrophies)

  1. (usually) Dystrophic changes in nails, such as deformations, malformations or discolourations.
    • 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
    • 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

onychodystrophy meaning in Tamil

onychodystrophy in Tamil

உகிர்உருத்திரிபு, உகிர் உருத்திரிபு

Examples of onychodystrophy in a sentence

  • 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 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:

Forms of onychodystrophy

pluralonychodystrophies
alternative formonychodystrophia

Origin of onychodystrophy

From onycho- + dystrophy.

Words formed from onychodystrophy

Questions about onychodystrophy

What does onychodystrophy mean?
Onychodystrophy means dystrophic changes in nails, such as deformations, malformations or discolourations.
What is onychodystrophy in Tamil?
Onychodystrophy in Tamil is உகிர்உருத்திரிபு, உகிர் உருத்திரிபு. See Onychodystrophy meaning in Tamil.
How do you use onychodystrophy in a sentence?
Median canaliform onychodystrophy typically presents with the Heller's fir tree deformity and is often associated with severe arterial disease, severe malnutrition, and trauma.
What part of speech is onychodystrophy?
Onychodystrophy is a noun.
What is the plural of onychodystrophy?
The plural of onychodystrophy is onychodystrophies.

Words near onychodystrophy in the dictionary

  1. onychodontids
  2. onychodonts
  3. onychodysplasia
  4. onychodystrophic
  5. onychodystrophies
  6. onychodystrophy
  7. onychogryphoses
  8. onychogryphosis
  9. onychogryphotic
  10. onychogryposis
  11. onychology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: onychodystrophy (page history and authors); onychodystrophy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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