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What is the name of the half moon shaped pale area at the bottom of fingernails?

Question #70514. Asked by deuceu72.

smartie806
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smartie806
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lunula which is the crescent shaped whitish area of the nail bed.
link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingernail

Sep 07 2006, 4:31 PM
hippo22
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hippo22

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cuticle

Sep 07 2006, 4:35 PM
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zbeckabee
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lunula unguis or selene unguium

link http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspzQzpgzEzzSzppdocszSzuszSzcommonzSzdorlandszSzdorlandzSzdmd_l_15zPzhtm#12504167


The cuticle or Eponychium is the skin that you can push back at the base and on TOP of the nail.

Sep 07 2006, 7:04 PM
tamken
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tamken

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cuticle

Sep 08 2006, 1:53 AM
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Baloo55th
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Cuticle is dead skin around the base of a fingernail; lunula is the whitish bit, as smartie and zbeck say. (Times English Dictionary)

Sep 08 2006, 4:46 AM
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