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onychology

onychology noun: the study of fingernails and toenails; the knowledge that such study produces; the clinical practice that benefits from it.

Noun

onychology (uncountable)

  1. The study of fingernails and toenails; the knowledge that such study produces; the clinical practice that benefits from it.
    • What! Another Book on Nails? The decade of the 1980s provided an explosive interest in the diagnosis and treatment of nail disorders. An area of dermatology long neglected by clinical and basic science-research people as well, onychology has rather suddenly become fashionable. The nail unit is no...2018, “First Edition Preface”, in Adam I. Rubin, C. Ralph Daniel III, Nathaniel J. Jellinek, Richard K. Scher, editors, Scher and Daniel's Nails: Diagnosis, Surgery...

Origin of onychology

From onycho- + -logy.

Questions about onychology

What does onychology mean?
Onychology means the study of fingernails and toenails; the knowledge that such study produces; the clinical practice that benefits from it.
What part of speech is onychology?
Onychology is a noun.

Words near onychology in the dictionary

  1. onychodystrophy
  2. onychogryphoses
  3. onychogryphosis
  4. onychogryphotic
  5. onychogryposis
  6. onychology
  7. onycholyses
  8. onycholysis
  9. onychomadesis
  10. onychomancy
  11. onychomycoses

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