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2. Nightstand - Wikipedia

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   A nightstand, [1] alternatively night table, bedside table, daystand or bedside cabinet, is a small table or cabinet designed to stand beside a bed or elsewhere in a bedroom. Modern nightstands are usually small bedside tables, often with one or sometimes more drawers and/or shelves and less commonly with a small door.

3. Lunula (anatomy) - Wikipedia

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   The lunula (pl.: lunulae; from Latin 'little moon') is the crescent-shaped whitish area of the bed of a fingernail or toenail. In humans, it appears by week 14 [ 1 ] of gestation , and has a primary structural role in defining the free edge of the distal nail plate (the part of the nail that grows outward).

4. Eponychium - Wikipedia

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   In human anatomy, the eponychium is the thickened layer of skin at the base of the fingernails and toenails. [1] It can also be called the medial or proximal nail fold. Its function is to protect the area between the nail and epidermis from exposure to bacteria. The vascularization pattern is similar to that of perionychium. [2]

5. Table (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   Bedside tables, nightstands, or night tables are small tables used in a bedroom. They are often used for convenient placement of a small lamp , alarm clock , glasses , or other personal items. Drop-leaf tables have a fixed section in the middle and a hinged section (leaf) on either side that can be folded down.

6. Nail (anatomy) - Wikipedia

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   The nail plate (corpus unguis) [3] sometimes referred to as the nail body, is the visible hard nail area from the nail root to the free edge, made of translucent keratin protein. Several layers of dead, compacted cells cause the nail to be strong but flexible. Its (transverse) shape is determined by the form of the underlying bone.

7. Cuticle - Wikipedia

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   Anatomy of the basic parts of a human nail. In human anatomy, "cuticle" can refer to several structures, but it is used in general parlance, and even by medical professionals, to refer to the thickened layer of skin surrounding fingernails and toenails (the eponychium), and to refer to the superficial layer of overlapping cells covering the hair shaft (cuticula pili), consisting of dead cells ...