ONYCHOSIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any disease or disorder of the nails

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("onychosis" is a kind of...):

disease (an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "onychosis"):

onycholysis (separation of a nail from its normal attachment to the nail bed)

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