Ch 5 Milady Nails

Question 1

What includes all parts of the finger from the tip to the first knuckle?

Answer 1

The natural nail unit.  is technically referred to as the Onyx.

Question 2

What is compose mainly of keratin the fiber shaped protein found in skin and hair

Answer 2

Onyx

Question 3

A healthy nail is fire and flexible, shiny and slightly pink. Its surface is usually smooth and unspotted with no splits or deep grooves a healthy nail is.

Answer 3

Translucent with a nail bed, pinkish or beige color showing through

Question 4

What is also known as the sidewall is the skin fold overlapping the nail side

Answer 4

Lateral nail fold

Question 5

What is the entire skin flap covering the matrix, extending from the visible nails plate edge to the first joint of the finger or toe

Answer 5

Pnf

Question 6

 What is the harden keratin plate that sits on top of the nail bed.

Answer 6

Nail plate

Question 7

What is part of the nail plate that extends over the tip of the finger or toe?

Answer 7

Free edge

Question 8

As the nail grows, and our place slowly slides across the

Answer 8

Nail bed

Question 9

A healthy nail may look dry and hard, but it has what percent of water content

Answer 9

15-25%

Question 10

What helps guide the nail plate along the nail bed as it grows?

Answer 10

The bed epithelium

Question 11

What is a nonliving color tissue attached? The nail plate comes from the eponym located on the underside of the skin living above the natural nail plate.

Answer 11

Cuticle

Question 12

Treat this area gently because when it is damaged, the nail plate and separate from the nail bed, making infections under the nail plate possible

Answer 12

Hyponychium

Question 13

What is a tough band of fiber tissue that connects bones or holes and organ in place

Answer 13

Ligaments - attached the nail bed and matrix to the underlining bone

Question 14

A healthy nail plate grows forward from the matrix and extends over the tip of the finger. The matrix length with anchor determine the plate thickness with and carpenter. Nothing can make the plate grow thicker this would require what to grow larger.

Answer 14

Matrix

Question 15

The average nail plate growth rate is typically 110 to 1 8 inch per month. The nail of the middle finger grows most quickly in the thumb grow the most.

Answer 15

Slowly

Question 16

During pregnancy, nail growth rate increased dramatically in the last trimester because of

Answer 16

Hormone changes

Question 17

Although toenail plates grow more slowly than fingernail plates, they are thicker because the matrix is longer originally complete now plate replacement takes about 4 to 6 months but toenail plates take how long to be fully replaced

Answer 17

Nine months to one year