Cuticles are near the nail growth center and also protect the proximal nail groove, which, if exposed, is vulnerable to bacteria, fungus and paronychia, a common nail infection. From Wordnik.com. [How To Buy & Sell just about Everything] Reference
How about paronychia from chewing your fingernails?. From Wordnik.com. [WhiteCoat Rants] Reference
In the common paronychia a poultice is generally sufficient. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Hence light is as intolerable in this kind of ophthalmia, as pressure is to the finger in the paronychia. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Acute paronychia following cuticle injury - Cortlandt Forum Five months ago, a teenager suffered an injured cuticle while trimming his toenail. From Wordnik.com. [We Blog A Lot] Reference
This is well exemplified in the internal and superficial paronychia, one of which is attended with great pain and fever, and the other with little pain and no fever. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
And hence the violent pain in some inflammations, as in the paronychia, obtains immediate relief by cutting the membrane, that was stretched by the tumour of the subjacent parts. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
He says, "People who have previous skin problems like eczema, atopic dermatitis, seborrhoeic dermatitis, acne vulgaris, paronychia, folliculitis and eye and breathing are the worst sufferers.". From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
The most common adverse events of Vectibix are skin rash with variable presentations, hypomagnesemia, paronychia, fatigue, abdominal pain, nausea, and diarrhea, including diarrhea resulting in dehydration. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
The worst was a bad case of chronic paronychia—it’s a disorder of the nail beds, usually fungal. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Mirror] Reference
The increased quantity of sensation from a topical inflammation or phlegmon is the immediate cause of the febris sensitiva irritata, or inflammatory fever; as when it arises from the pain of pleurisy, or paronychia; but generally an irritative fever precedes this topical inflammation, which occurs during the hot fit of it; and then the irritative fever is changed into a sensitive irritated fever, by the additional cause of the sensorial power of sensation besides that of irritation. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Infection of a finger is a paronychia. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
C) The inflamation of cuticle or nail fold is called paronychia. From Wordnik.com. [Shaister Miester Do Da] Reference
Superficial paronychia. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
· Subungual paronychia. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
Subcutaneous paronychia. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
· Peri-ungual paronychia. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
Surgery for chronic paronychia. From Wordnik.com. [quotes « WordPress.com Tag Feed] Reference
paronychia, 30. From Wordnik.com. [Simple Skin Beauty] Reference
Lithium is often effective for paronychia, chalazions, bacterial skin infections, urinary tract infections, canker sores, cold sores and genital herpes, antidepressants for canker sores, cold sores, genital herpes, T. B, and probably malaria and HIV. From Wordnik.com. [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference
"Left great toe, paronychia, fungal infection, suggest client watch infomercials for dangerous cures; left second toe, onychia, inflamed matrix, possibly pathenogenic, suggest client take antibiotics; left middle toe, evident clubbing, suggest client see lung, liver and heart specialists; left fourth toe, Mee's lines, suggest client find new marital partner who won't feed him arsenic; left small toe, dark nail, suggest client add B12 to diet. From Wordnik.com. [EVIL EDITOR] Reference
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