Question 1

What is the purpose of the nail plate?

Accepted Answer

To protect the nail bed

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to protect the matrix

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to help the nail grow

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to strengthen the nail

Question 2

What best describes the area seen through the nail plate?

Accepted Answer

Pink & fleshy

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thin and brittle

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red and raised

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yellow and discoloured

Question 3

What is the area where the nail plate has grown up and detached from the nail bed known as?

Accepted Answer

Stress area

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relaxed area

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raised area

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brittle area

Question 4

What is the name of the fold of skin at the side of the nail plate?

Accepted Answer

Side wall

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lateral lift

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lateral raise

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side lift

Question 5

What is the visible part of the matrix?

Accepted Answer

Lunula white half moon

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the crescent

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the flat bed

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the gibbous raise

Question 6

What is the hardening of nail cells called?

Accepted Answer

Keratinisation

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iron deficiency

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koilonychia

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keratinoidosis

Question 7

What is the area where flat translucent cells are formed called?

Accepted Answer

the matrix

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the lunula

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the nail tip

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the nail bed

Question 8

The body of the nail sits on the nail bed. True or False.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 9

The proximal nail fold is the gibbous pale area at the base of the nail plate. true or False.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 10

The free edge of the nail is below the fingertip. True or False

Accepted Answer

False

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