onychodystrophy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
35
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Dystrophic changes in nails, such as deformations, malformations or discolourations.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Symmetric lupoid onychodystrophy is a form of lupus that involves the cells from which the nails grow."
- "Whether onychodystrophy is more common among patients with diabetes is not known."
- "Median canaliform onychodystrophy typically presents with the Heller's fir tree deformity and is often associated with severe arterial disease, severe malnutrition, and trauma."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
From onycho- + dystrophy.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
onychodystrophies (plural)
onychodystrophia (alternative)