Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Increase in the substance of the nail, whether as simple thickening or as a general enlargement of its entire substance.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, good evening kids of all ages, good evening my exwives and my wife and prospective wives, good evening some of my own children out there in the audience, good evening my lawyer, my agent, my accountant, good evening my recordlabel execs, good evening my podiatrist (who just last Thursday she told me that my onychauxis it had developed into onychogryphosis, had a professional trim my nails) ....
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(_Synonym: _ Hypertrophy of the Nail.) #Describe onychauxis.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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