Virginia Cosmetology State Board - Nail units questions with || || || || || || || || ||
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A nails mantle is a ___________ ____________ structure. - ✔✔Pocket-like
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What does the nails mantle hold? - ✔✔the root and matrix
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What part of the nail produces the nail plate? - ✔✔Nail Matrix
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What part of the nail generates cells? - ✔✔Nail Matrix
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The nail root is attached to what? - ✔✔the matrix at the base of the nail
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Where is the nail root located? - ✔✔Attached at the base of the nail, under the skin and
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inside the mantle || ||
Where are the nails nerves and blood supply found - ✔✔nail bed
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How is the nail bed attached to the fingers bone - ✔✔Ligaments
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where is the nail plate found? - ✔✔on the nailbed from nail root to free edge
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What is another name for nail body? - ✔✔nail plate!
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The lunula is what? - ✔✔a visible segment of the nail matrix
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What is the visible part of the matrix? - ✔✔lunula
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What is the eponychium? - ✔✔it is live tissue at the base of the nail that protects matrix
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from infection
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What protects the nail for infection? - ✔✔the eponychium
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What part of the nail has a water-tight seal that protects the matrix from inflection - ✔✔the
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eponychium
What is the dead tissue that sits on top of the nail plate? - ✔✔Cuticle
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What is the purpose of a cuticle? - ✔✔it provides protection for the tissue that grows new
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cells to build nails. aka the nail matrix
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What are nail grooves? - ✔✔Tracks on either side of the nail that the nail moves on as it
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grows
What are sidewalls of the nail? - ✔✔They are folds of skin on either side of the nail groove
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Where are nail groves located? - ✔✔between the side walls and nail plate
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What is the perionychium? - ✔✔The living tissue that overlies the nail plate on the sides of
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the nail
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where is the hyponychium? - ✔✔Living tissue underneath the free edge of the nail
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