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2. The Real Reason for Ridges on Fingernails, According to Doctors

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   12. Consider taking biotin supplements. While biotin supplements haven’t been proven to aid in hair and nail growth, there are anecdotal reports that they may help to strengthen the nail plate ...

3. How to Make Your Nails Stronger Within a Month - AOL

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   Try as you might, your nails never seem to make it past the nail bed without chipping or breaking on you. It’s frustrating, we know (especially when you've just paid for a fresh manicure).

4. Trachonychia - Wikipedia

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   "The longitudinal striations can occur as a normal part of the aging process", [2] and not until the nails start to thin and get a sandpaper look is the condition called trachonychia. The nails are opalescent and frequently are brittle and split at the free margin. There has been evidence of the condition as a cutaneous manifestation of lichen ...

5. Nail disease - Wikipedia

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   Nail clubbing - nails that curve down around the fingertips with nailbeds that bulge is associated with oxygen deprivation and lung, heart, or liver disease. Koilonychia - spooning, or nails that grow upwards. Associated with iron-deficiency anaemia or vitamin B 12 deficiency. [citation needed] Pitting of the nails is associated with psoriasis.

6. Beau's lines - Wikipedia

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   Beau's lines are deep grooved lines that run from side to side on the fingernail or the toenail. [1] They may look like indentations or ridges in the nail plate. [2]: 657 This condition of the nail was named by a French physician, Joseph Honoré Simon Beau (1806–1865), who first described it in 1846.

7. Nail clubbing - Wikipedia

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   When the distal phalanges (bones nearest the fingertips) of corresponding fingers of opposite hands are directly opposed (place fingernails of same finger on opposite hands against each other, nail to nail), a small diamond-shaped "window" is normally apparent between the nailbeds. If this window is obliterated, the test is positive and ...

8. Olympian Jordan Chiles Explains Why Her Long Nails ‘Actually ...

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   “A lot of people always ask me how I do gymnastics with such long nails. To tell you the truth, they actually help me with my technique,” Chiles, 23, recently told the Associated Press .

9. Muehrcke's nails - Wikipedia

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   Muehrcke's lines were described by American physician Robert C. Muehrcke (1921–2003) in 1956. In a study published in BMJ, he examined patients with known chronic hypoalbuminemia and healthy volunteers, finding that the appearance of multiple transverse white lines was a highly specific marker for low serum albumin (no subject with the sign had SA over 2.2 g/dL), was associated with severity ...