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  2. Onychomancy - Wikipedia

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    Onychomancy fingernail chart showing alleged correspondence with chakra points. Practitioners of onychomancy relate patterns observed on the fingernails with chakras, reflexology points, astrological interpretations of planets and Tarot. Furthermore, stimulation of the fingers by rubbing or massage is believed to have beneficial effects on the ...

  3. Chalkboard scraping - Wikipedia

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    Scraping a chalkboard (also known as a blackboard) with one's fingernails produces a sound and feeling which most people find extremely irritating. The basis of the innate reaction to the sound has been studied in the field of psychoacoustics (the branch of psychology concerned with the perception of sound and its physiological effects).

  4. Nail (anatomy) - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 March 2025. Hard keratin protection of digit This article is about the anatomical features of primates' digits. For the structure on some birds' beaks, see Nail (beak). "Toenail" and "Fingernail" redirect here. For the construction technique, see Toenailing. For the 2023 film, see Fingernails (film ...

  5. The hidden dangers of acrylic nails and why you might ... - AOL

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    Photo: Getty 1. The hard-to-clean area underneath your nail may cause your nails to be extra sensitive, especially if an MMA-based acrylic (Methyl Methacrylate) is used. Though they've been banned ...

  6. Woman breaks records with her 18-foot-long fingernails - AOL

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    Photo: Guinness World Records. It takes Ayanna, a nail technician, over 20 hours to paint her nails, which requires two bottles of nail polish. With this time commitment, she only paints them once ...

  7. 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).

  8. Yes, Timothée Chalamet's Shockingly Long Fingernails in “A ...

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    Timothée Chalamet nailed his impersonation of Bob Dylan right down to his grooming.. In a Fandango interview clip shared to TikTok, the actor, 28, talked about growing out his fingernails to ...

  9. Kuntilanak - Wikipedia

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    Kuntilanak or Pontianak is often described as an astral female spirit; another version of this figure is a woman spirit with long sharp fangs and fingernails. It is similar to the spirit of a woman unable to give birth while her stillborn child was inside her womb.