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ONYCHOSIS
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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)