Paronychia

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Inflammation of the tissue surrounding a fingernail or toenail.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An infection under the cuticle of a fingernail or toenail.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A whitlow, or felon{3}.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In pathology, inflammation about the nail; whitlow.
  • n. [capitalized] [NL. (A. L. de Jussieu, 1815).] A genus of apetalous plants of the order Illecebraceæ, type of the tribe Paronychieæ, known by the involucrate calyx of five hooded segments, each with a horn, point, or awn on the back.
  • n. Plural of paronychium.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts
  • n. infection in the tissues adjacent to a nail on a finger or toe
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    caryophylloid dicot genus    infection   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    whitlow   
     
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